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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

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
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
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Interesting Moving Musical
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking

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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