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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Brian Eno

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
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
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
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
BRIAN ENO

Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
BRIAN ENO

Firsts Monotonous Should
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching

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