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

Brian Eno

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Computer Driven Technology
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
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
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Believe Confidence Keys Self
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
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
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
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
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
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
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight

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