I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. — 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
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest -… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want… — 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 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
In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their… — 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 just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking… — 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
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the… — 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
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
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
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part… — 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
If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. — 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
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
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh,… — 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
