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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

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
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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Life Mind Past Singular
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Play Running Years
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose

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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