Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial:… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really… — 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
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the… — 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