I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there… — 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
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how… — 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
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
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
Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,… — 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
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the… — 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
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. — 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
![“Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and…” quote by Brian Eno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b87/brian-eno-776_airports_except-in-a-few-cases-like-music-for-air_170829.jpg)
