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Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

Brian Eno

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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Arrows Niche Target
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
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
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
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Mind People Trying

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