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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Brian Eno

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
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 wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
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
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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Believe Confidence Keys Self
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness
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

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