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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

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENO

Adjectives Populism Populist
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
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Courses Knows Repeats
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they’re inclined to encourage that.
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Song Thinking Trying
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
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Copyright Giving Writing
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
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
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Arrows Niche Target
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Believe Kindness Thinking

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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