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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Brian Eno

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
BRIAN ENO

Feelings Interesting World
There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
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
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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Guitar Overcoming Trying
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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Act Doing Knows
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
The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
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Issues Judgement Skills
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
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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Focus People Real
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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Interesting Manipulate World
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
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

Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

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