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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Brian Eno

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Believe Kindness Thinking
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
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
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
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 suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
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
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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Free Jazz Musical Want
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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

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