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

Brian Eno

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
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
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People Song Track
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
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
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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Art Feel Good People
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?
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Bass Credit Engineer Player
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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Become Control Immortal Part
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 despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
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Ideas Wrestling Yoga
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Everybody Expensive Plant Riches
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

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