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

Brian Eno

In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
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
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Brother Favorite Game Hobby
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
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer
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
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World
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
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
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
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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