Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn't an MP3. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me. — 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
Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to… — 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
I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing.… — 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
