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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

You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Copyright Giving Writing
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television

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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