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Brian Eno

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
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
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
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
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
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
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
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Criped People See Undo Unless
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television

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