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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

Brian Eno

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
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Bits Longer Notice People Something
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
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Facts Okay Thinking
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can’t notate that. You can’t notate the sound of “St. Elmo’s Fire.” There’s no way of writing that down. That’s because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited.
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Mean Musical Sound Writing
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
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
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Behind Roles Scenes Spotlight
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
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
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Being Choose Completely Difficult
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
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Black Events Signature White
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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Evolve Ideas Programme
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
I believe in singing.
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Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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Creativity Supplement World
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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Admirer Conservatism Force

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