I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest -… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
One way of working is just bring a group of totally different musicians together and encourage them to stick to their guns,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial:… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. — Brian Eno Copy Share
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! — Brian Eno Copy Share
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being… — Brian Eno Copy Share
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… — Brian Eno Copy Share
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… — Brian Eno Copy Share
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing. — Brian Eno Copy Share
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but… — Brian Eno Copy Share
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. — Brian Eno Copy Share
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then… — Brian Eno Copy Share
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them… — Brian Eno Copy Share
