People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually. — 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… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important.… — 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
Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think everyone's inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, 'Well,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In… — 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
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. — Brian Eno Copy Share
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
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
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. — Brian Eno Copy Share
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then… — Brian Eno Copy Share
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them… — Brian Eno Copy Share
![“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/i/b87/brian-eno-776_airports_except-in-a-few-cases-like-music-for-air_170829.jpg)
