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

Brian Eno

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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Agree Enough Terrible
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
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
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Giving Long Mean
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
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
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Guitar Overcoming Trying
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills

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