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thinking bored elements
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno." Brian Eno
thinking play differences
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.
thinking ideas personality
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
thinking furniture
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
thinking machines eras
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
thinking
Think inside the work - outside the work
thinking cds interesting
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.
thinking listening way
Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.
together doe interest
My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.
technology computer driven
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.
thinking cds differences
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. 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.
travel matter scene
It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
thinking ideas creating
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
thinking together retrospect
You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.
telephones conversation objects
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
thinking way computer
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
thinking audience comfortable
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
thinking people aspect
I think, if you spend a day or as many people do a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
thinking feelings world
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
torture ifs
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
television american-television pathetic
American television really is pathetic.
thinking people music-is
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
thinking worry upset
Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore. Brent Runyon
thinking careers acting
Im thinking of going into rehab. Im not addicted to anything, but I think its good way to jumpstart an acting career. Brent Spiner
thinking causes show-business
I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
trying bigs screens
No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen.
trying etc best-laid-plans
I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.
thinking actors unemployment
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
taken type
All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day. Bret Michaels
two choices use
You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person. Brent Smith
today problem killing
Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem. Brent Scowcroft
thinking people littles
You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.
thinking firsts conflict
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.