I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want… — 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
Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range… — 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… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I… — 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 still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“On the end of an era "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There… — 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
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
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. — 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
At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of… — 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 always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same… — 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
![“I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this…” quote by Brian Eno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dfc/brian-eno-776_courses_i-hate-the-thought-that-someone-had-pick_211975.jpg)
