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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.

Brian Eno

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
BRIAN ENO

Aquariums Essentials Voice
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
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
But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Criped People See Undo Unless
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
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality

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