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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

Brian Eno

There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
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Musical Sound Territory
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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Conversation Object Telephone
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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Firsts Monotonous Should
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
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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Creativity Humans Waste
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
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Ego Mean Risk
So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people “Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work.” And of course I’m very pleased if people like all of them, but I don’t want them to feel deceived at any point.
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Departments Graphical People Pleased
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Hate Talking
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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Art Rehearsal World
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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Doing Firsts Nobody
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
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Albums Commercial Ideas

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