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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Brian Eno

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
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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Mean Moving Play Playing Somebody
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
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 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
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
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
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

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