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Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

Brian Eno

Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
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
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Country Hip Hop House Person
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Play Running Years
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
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

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

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