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
My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there… — 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
