Famous Quotes

Quotes by Brian Eno

• I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
• I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
• I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
• I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
• 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.
• I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
• I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
• I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
• I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
• I take sounds and change them into words.
• I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
• I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
• I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
• I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
• I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
• I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
• I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
• I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
• I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
• I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
• I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
• If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
• If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
• In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
• It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
• It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.