Aren Hurt Quotes by Brian Eno

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

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

— Brian Eno

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

— Brian Eno

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

— Brian Eno

You can't really imagine music without technology.

— Brian Eno

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

— Brian Eno

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

— Brian Eno

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

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

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

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

— Brian Eno

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

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

— Brian Eno

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

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