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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.

Brian Eno

There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
BRIAN ENO

Giving Long Mean
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
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
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
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 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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Feelings Thinking World
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
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
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
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Believe Confidence Keys Self

As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.

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