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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

Brian Eno

There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
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Giving Long Mean
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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Interesting Running Track
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
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
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
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted.
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Copyright Giving Writing
I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Paper Song Structure
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
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Great Mercilessly Torture
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
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Beyond Reach Situation
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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Accepting Inherited Longer

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

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