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Brian Eno

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
I think the other thing that’s important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time.
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Differences Musician Playing Thinking Watching
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
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 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
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
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Nice People Thinking
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Grow Up Ideas Strong
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
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
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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Important People Pieces Searching
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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Arrows Niche Target
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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Headphones Listening To Music
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want

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