Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head;… — 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
