Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. — 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
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
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable… — 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
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never… — 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
