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.
BRIAN ENOIf you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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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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I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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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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I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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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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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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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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