The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. — 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
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
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. — 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
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. — 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
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. — 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
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
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. — 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
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
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am,… — 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
