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I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Brian Eno

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
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Play Running Years
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

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