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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

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
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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Art Imagine Interesting Lying
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
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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Grow Up Ideas Strong
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
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
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
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
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force

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

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