Brian Eno Quotes - Page 10

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

Being an artist is a job for life.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

I'm very opinionated.

I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.