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
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
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act 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
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable… — 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
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to… — 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
Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long… — 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
