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

Brian Eno

The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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Development Feelings Human
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
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
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
American television really is pathetic.
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Country Pathetic People Television
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Flirting Ideas Play
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use

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