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

Brian Eno

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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Departments Graphical People Pleased
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
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
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
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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Guitar Pounds Years

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