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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Brian Eno

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
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
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
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
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
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
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy

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