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Brian Eno

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
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
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
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple 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.
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Clear Floating Ideas
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking
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
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.
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Fun People Technology
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
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice

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