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

Brian Eno

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
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 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
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
BRIAN ENO

Courses Knows Repeats
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
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
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
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. 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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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound

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