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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

You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
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
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
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
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real

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