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With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
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.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
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
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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Interesting Running Track
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
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

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