I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize… — 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
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that… — 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
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
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
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
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 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 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)
