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Everybody is entertained to death.

Brian Eno

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Guitar Overcoming Trying
I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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Believe Encourage Important School
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
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Bored Retrospect Thinking
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
Think inside the work – outside the work
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Inside Thinking Work
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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Decision Hands Ideas
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
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 often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
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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Looks Past Thinking
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
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult

Everybody is entertained to death.

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