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I often work by avoidance.

Brian Eno

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
BRIAN ENO

Clear Floating Ideas
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
BRIAN ENO

Guitar Pounds Years
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
BRIAN ENO

Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
BRIAN ENO

Surrender Verbs Want
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Guitar Overcoming Trying
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
I often work by avoidance.
BRIAN ENO

Avoidance Often Work
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
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.
BRIAN ENO

Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Interesting Moving Musical
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows

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