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When 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.

Brian Eno

Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
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Evolution Simple Theory
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
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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Ego Mean Risk
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
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
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer

When 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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