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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

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
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
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
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Art Rehearsal World
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People

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