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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.

Brian Eno

Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
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
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’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
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
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
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
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
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
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Arrows Art Eye Smack
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing

When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.

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