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I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!

Brian Eno

It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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Bass Credit Engineer Player
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
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
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 always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
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Easy Listening People
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Believe Kindness Thinking
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
BRIAN ENO

Headphones Listening To Music
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
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
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
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World

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