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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

The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
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
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
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
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
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
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
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
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography

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