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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

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
BRIAN ENO

Bugs Ears People
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
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
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
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.
BRIAN ENO

Afterward Firsts Lines Sound

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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