Brian Eno Quotes

• Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Objects, Start

• 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.

  Brian Eno

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Away, Back

• 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.

  Brian Eno

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Records, Started

• 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.

  Brian Eno

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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.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Reason

• 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.

  Brian Eno

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Distance, Idea

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

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Music

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

  Brian Eno

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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!

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Recording

• People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

  Brian Eno

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Song

• 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

  Topics in Knowledge

• Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Nearly, Things

• My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Generate, Process

• My guitar only has five strings ’cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Guitar

• Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Musicians

• Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Music

• Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Trying, Find

• It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in Change

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

  Brian Eno

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  Tags in People, Trying

• If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

  Brian Eno

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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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