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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.

Brian Eno

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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Fun People Technology
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically 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.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose

I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.

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