Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and… — 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 have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours. — 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
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track,… — 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 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
A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of… — 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
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. — Brian Eno Copy Share
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
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
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. — Brian Eno Copy Share
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then… — Brian Eno Copy Share
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them… — Brian Eno Copy Share
![“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/i/dfc/brian-eno-776_courses_i-hate-the-thought-that-someone-had-pick_211975.jpg)
