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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

Brian Eno

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
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
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
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
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

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