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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.

Brian Eno

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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Believe Confidence Keys Self
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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Anything End never Outsider Something Think
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
But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of “cut and paste” and “undo.” And “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” and “undo” again.
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Criped People See Undo Unless
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Art Rehearsal World
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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Dark Personality Struggle Sweet
I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something – being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.
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Mexican Nice Track
One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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Art Feel Good People
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Celebrity Electric Guitar Music Overcome Responsible
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
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
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

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