Brian Eno Quotes
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I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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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.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
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I love good, loud speakers.
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My shows are not narratives.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
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The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots of fun, aren't they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!'
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The computer brings out the worst in some people.
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The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
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I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
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It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
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Think inside the work - outside the work.
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What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.
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I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.
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You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.
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Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.