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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

Brian Eno

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
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
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
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
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
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Computer Driven Technology
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste

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