One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
BRIAN ENOAll the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they’re not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work.
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Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn’t necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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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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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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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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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
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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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Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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