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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

Brian Eno

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
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
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
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
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
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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Hands People Sloppiness
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
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 most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
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
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

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

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