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Extended Cut: Brian Eno and Rick Rubin

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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Can't Control, What Is the Best Thing to Do?

Comfortable was probably the most controversial word you could use then. When when i realized that surrender was really the thing i was interested in for that kind of music. We should not think that surrendering is passivity or cowardice or incompetence. I think of it as a way of dealing with things. At one end, we have extreme control and at the other, surrender. What we find ecstatic is nearly always an experience of surrender. And art is the place where we go to have this feeling again.

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