Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. — 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
Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film… — 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
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 most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching. — 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
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
