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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.

Brian Eno

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Criticism Hurt People
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
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
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
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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Brother Distance Philosophical
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
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
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
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Attention Interesting Listening

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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