I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — 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
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could… — 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
There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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 describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make,… — 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
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven… — 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
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 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
You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I… — 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
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then… — 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
