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The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Brian Eno

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
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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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
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
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
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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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Fabulous Sound Use

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

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