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

Brian Eno

I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
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
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
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
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
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
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 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
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
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
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

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

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