When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting. — 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
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm… — 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 music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and… — 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
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
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled… — 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 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
