Song Quotes by Brian Eno

I love good, loud speakers.

— Brian Eno

I believe in singing.

— Brian Eno

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

— Brian Eno

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

— Brian Eno

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

— Brian Eno

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

— Brian Eno

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

— Brian Eno

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

— Brian Eno

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

— Brian Eno

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

— Brian Eno

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part…

— Brian Eno

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

— Brian Eno

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want…

— Brian Eno

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

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest -…

— Brian Eno

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

— Brian Eno

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

— Brian Eno

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

— Brian Eno

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I…

— Brian Eno

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There…

— Brian Eno

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long…

— Brian Eno

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the…

— Brian Eno

A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions…

— Brian Eno

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize…

— Brian Eno

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

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

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

The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart…

— Brian Eno

I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks…

— Brian Eno

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take…

— Brian Eno

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

“On the end of an era "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living…

— Brian Eno

In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't…

— Brian Eno

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

— Brian Eno

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

— Brian Eno

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

— Brian Eno

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

— Brian Eno

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am,…

— Brian Eno

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable…

— Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to…

— Brian Eno