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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

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
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
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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
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
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing

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.

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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.

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