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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

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
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
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
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
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Evaluation Feelings Ideas
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
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting

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

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