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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Brian Eno

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
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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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
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 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
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
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
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Interesting Moving Musical
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term

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