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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Brian Eno

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
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Doubt Increase Simultaneous
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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Collaboration Grows Helping
Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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People Stars Suits
I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.
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Best Musician Territory Work
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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Easily Forgotten Important
My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Chord Cutting Guitar Play
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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Guitar Pounds Years
Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don’t agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it – or chuck it away if they don’t want it.
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Enough Position Relation Someone Use
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Attractive Long Voice
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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Attention Interesting Listening
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Best Minutes Written
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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Bugs Ears People
I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
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Bears Hate Rocks
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
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Fabulous Sound Use
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
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Compose Firsts Heard Ideas Tape

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

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