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Every collaboration helps you grow.

Brian Eno

Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
BRIAN ENO

Enough Position Relation Someone Use
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
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
BRIAN ENO

Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
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.
BRIAN ENO

Computer Driven Technology
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
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
BRIAN ENO

Artist Being One Struggle
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
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
BRIAN ENO

Function Trouble Views
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
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
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People

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