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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Brian Eno

I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
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
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
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 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
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

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