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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Brian Eno

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
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
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People 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
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
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
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
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
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 felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

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