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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Brian Eno

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
BRIAN ENO

Fun People Technology
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
BRIAN ENO

Avant Done Garde Research
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
BRIAN ENO

Ideas Wrestling Yoga
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
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
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
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.
BRIAN ENO

Clear Floating Ideas
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
BRIAN ENO

Computer Thinking Way
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Guitar Overcoming Trying

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

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