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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

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
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
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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Although Around Suggests Tecture Way
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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Calm Space Thinking
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
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
We’re going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It’s the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
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Designed Machines Thinking Uptight
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance

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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