I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
BRIAN ENOWhen 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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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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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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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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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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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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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.
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