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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.

Brian Eno

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Evaluation Feelings Ideas
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Play Running Years

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