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
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world. — 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
You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so… — 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
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are… — 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
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart… — 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
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
I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be… — 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 wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who… — 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
