By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. — 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 can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the… — Brian Eno Copy Share
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
