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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

Brian Eno

Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
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
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

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