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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

Brian Eno

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Interesting Moving Musical
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Flirting Ideas Play
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

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