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
Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn't an MP3. — 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
I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last… — 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
I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted… — 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 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
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
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 Image
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 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 Image
