Brian Eno Quotes

• One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

  Brian Eno

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• The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

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  Tags in Distance, Idea

• 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.

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• When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

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• Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

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• The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

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• Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

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  Tags in Recording

• 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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  Tags in Increasingly

• The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

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  Tags in Reason

• The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

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  Topics in Computer

Brian Eno (50)

Birth:	15th May, 1948
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist, Composer, Musician, Record Producer, Singer

About

Brian Eno was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. He is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. He also introduced the concept of chance music to popular audiences, partially through collaborations with other musicians. Eno has also worked as an influential music and album producer. He produced and performed on three albums by Talking Heads, including Remain in Light, and produced seven albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree.

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