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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Brian Eno

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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Combination Form Kind Magic
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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Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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Agree Enough Terrible
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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Peculiar Process Writing
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams.
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Dream Feelings Together
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
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
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Hands People Sloppiness
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
The seven white notes on the piano – each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes.
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Piano Simple White
Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.
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Identity InterAction Notable
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting

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