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Think inside the work – outside the work

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 wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
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.
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Clear Floating Ideas
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
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
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
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
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
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 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
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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Appropriate Language Notation

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