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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

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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Fine Thinking Titles
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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Avant Done Garde Research
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
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 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
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening
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

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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