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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

Brian Eno

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
BRIAN ENO

Best Musician Territory Work
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
BRIAN ENO

Free Jazz Musical Want
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
BRIAN ENO

Song Thinking Trying
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
BRIAN ENO

Culture Everything Happen
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay 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.
BRIAN ENO

Creating Ideas Thinking
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Mean Moving Play Playing Somebody
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

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