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

Brian Eno

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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Believe Encourage Important School
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
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Adjectives Populism Populist
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
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Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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Surrender Verbs Want
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
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
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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Arrows Niche Target
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
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Artist Impressed Past
The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
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Band Enough Play
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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Computer Thinking Way
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Attention Done Forget
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
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Biology Noses Purpose
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
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Life Mind Past Singular
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
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People Underground Velvet
There are hundreds of manufacturers always producing dvices that in general do the same things. Since they have slight structural differences if you take one and fool around with it and give it a good kick it will actually do something that it wasn’t designed to do.
BRIAN ENO

Giving Long Mean
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Human Self Smart Thinking

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