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Brian Eno

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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Feelings Thinking World
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Believe Kindness Thinking
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play
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
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
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
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
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
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
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping

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