Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
BRIAN ENOThe texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
More Brian Eno Quotes
-
-
Everybody is entertained to death.
BRIAN ENO -
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature… The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
BRIAN ENO -
It’s amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
BRIAN ENO -
I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
BRIAN ENO -
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste – the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
BRIAN ENO -
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
BRIAN ENO -
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest – the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
BRIAN ENO -
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
BRIAN ENO -
The tools are evolving, and people’s interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness.
BRIAN ENO -
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 -
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
BRIAN ENO -
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
BRIAN ENO -
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
BRIAN ENO -
I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
BRIAN ENO -
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
BRIAN ENO