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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Brian Eno

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
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
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
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
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
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
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good

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