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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

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
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
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Copyright Giving Writing
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
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
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
BRIAN ENO

Country Weight Years

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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