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“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.” quote by Brian Eno — Download Open image

“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”

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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

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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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You can't really imagine music without technology.

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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being…

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I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the…

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving…

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Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

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I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but…

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

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