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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

Brian Eno

Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
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
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
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
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable

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