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

Brian Eno

Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking
Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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Annoying Creation Sometimes Well
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
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle

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

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