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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

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
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
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
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Amplify Details Looks
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Interesting Moving Musical
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then the other person joins in, and something starts to happen. That’s occasionally what happens.
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Mean Moving Play Playing Somebody
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
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Function Trouble Views
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate

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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