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

Brian Eno

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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Appropriate Language Notation
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
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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Artist Being One Struggle
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.
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Life Normal Persons
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
I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
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Computer Driven Technology
Law is always better than war.
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Always Better Law War
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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Art Philosophical Photography
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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Feelings Hands People
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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Believe Kindness Thinking
Everybody is entertained to death.
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Death Entertained Everybody
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
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Mind People Trying
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
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Easier Made Technically Things
For me it’s always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it’s always sound first and then the line afterwards.
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Afterward Firsts Lines Sound
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

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

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