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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

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
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Flirting Ideas Play
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
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
The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Avant Done Garde Research
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television

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