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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.

Brian Eno

When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
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Fine Thinking Titles
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Democracy Disappear Easy
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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Certain Messages Rich
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
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
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that you’d put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Flirting Ideas Play
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
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Hitting Interesting Melodious Trying
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
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Much Shelves Sitting
Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Jazz Painting Thinking
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
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Device Easiest Handbook Predicted Things
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
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Computer Enough Problem
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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Down Finger High Low Play
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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Aquariums Essentials Voice

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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