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Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.


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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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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.



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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.



Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.



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.

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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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.





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