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One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Brian Eno

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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Decision Hands Ideas
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
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Clear Floating Ideas
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
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
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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Music People Thinking
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works – he has an idea and he writes it down, so there’s one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there’s another transmission loss.
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Down Loss Thinking Transmission Writing
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Creating Ideas Thinking
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
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
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Art Calling Philosophy
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
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
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
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Baby Beach Chance
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
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Fashion Play World

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

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