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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.

Brian Eno

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
BRIAN ENO

Bugs Ears People
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
BRIAN ENO

Bloddy Caring Hate
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
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
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Fabulous Sound Use
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
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

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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