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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 belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Atheist Choir Knows
I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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Away Pulled Quite Wanted
I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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Country Gay People Sea Something
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
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Detachable Furniture Thinking
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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Action Demand Reality
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
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Bad People Qualities Quality
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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Bloddy Caring Hate
I occasionally meet people and they say, ‘Oh, I was born to Discreet Music’… They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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Born Eye Occasionally People
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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Consciousness Ideas Uncool
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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Body Muscles Players Traditional Use Whole

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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