When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
BRIAN ENOStop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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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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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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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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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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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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