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

Brian Eno

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
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
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
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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Bass Credit Engineer Player
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
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
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking

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