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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Brian Eno

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

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