As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
BRIAN ENOA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
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Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
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The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
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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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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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Painting, I think it’s like jazz.
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Let’s do something else.”And you always think “Oh my God I’ve never done anything at all like that before.” But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they’ll say, “Oh, yeah that’s typical Eno.
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I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
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I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
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Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
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I’ve always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I’ll sort of listen to the “lie” and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true…what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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