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Brian Eno

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
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
I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Arrows Niche Target
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking

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