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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 got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
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Earth Editing Film Sentence
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
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
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 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
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often 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
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased

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