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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

Brian Eno

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
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
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 belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
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
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
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
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying

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