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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

Brian Eno

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
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
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
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
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
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
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
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
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist

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