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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.

Brian Eno

We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Mean Moving Play Playing Somebody
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
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
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 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
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want

I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.

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I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.

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