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

Brian Eno

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 whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Fabulous Sound Use
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
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 do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
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Looks Past Thinking
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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Microscopes Sound Use
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Art Rehearsal World
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
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Exercise Interesting People
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
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
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Historical Looks Writing
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
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Categories Sometimes Term

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