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
It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of… — 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 used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm… — 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
