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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.

Brian Eno

Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
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
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
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Flirting Ideas Play
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
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Evaluation Feelings Ideas
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem

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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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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