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
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
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds. — 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
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
I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then… — 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)
