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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Brian Eno

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
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
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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Play Running Years
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
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Arrows Art Eye Smack
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
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
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
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
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
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
I often work by avoidance.
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Avoidance Often Work

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

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When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

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