In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest -… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am,… — 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
