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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

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
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Computer Driven Technology
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby
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
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 don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
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
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet

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