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When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

Brian Eno

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
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
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Giving Long Mean
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
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 thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Play Running Years
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking

When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

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