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

Brian Eno

I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
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
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
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
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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Bass Credit Engineer Player
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation

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

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