Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
BRIAN ENOQuite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I’m struggling all the way through to think, “What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I’m hearing that I like so much?”
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In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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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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I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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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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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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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
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I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
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