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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.

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
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
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 Song Track
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Mean Moving Play Playing Somebody
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War

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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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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