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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

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
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
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‘star’ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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Stars Want
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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Games Loops Music
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
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
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
BRIAN ENO

Ideas Wrestling Yoga

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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