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

Brian Eno

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Country Weight Years
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn’t what they wanted.
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Hate Land Song
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
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Last might Statistics
I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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Feelings Interesting World
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
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
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it – like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music.
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Cds Difference Thinking
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn’t expected or predicted by what I supplied.
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Come Happen Identity Moving Something Term
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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Firsts Intrusion Occasional
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
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Culture Everything Happen
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
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Ambition Art Painting
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
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Everything Good

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

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