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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
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
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Fabulous Sound Use
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
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
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
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
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Mediums Narrative Television
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
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Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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Down Finger High Low Play

I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.

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I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.

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