Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENORobert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
More Brian Eno Quotes
-
-
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
BRIAN ENO -
There’s a kind of edge to what you’re doing, the kind of leading edge of what you’re doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. “I’ve pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can’t I’m just fed up with that.
BRIAN ENO -
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 -
The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it’s a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it’s expensive so you pay attention to how it’s looked after.
BRIAN ENO -
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
BRIAN ENO -
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
BRIAN ENO -
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them “Our exercise today is not to use ‘undo’ at all. So, there’s no second takes. Or, if you do a second take, you have to do the whole take.
BRIAN ENO -
I think that there’s something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. “Okay, this is what they’re up to now; this is what they’re doing; who’s working with them?
BRIAN ENO -
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
BRIAN ENO -
Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.
BRIAN ENO -
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
BRIAN ENO -
I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
BRIAN ENO -
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
BRIAN ENO -
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
BRIAN ENO -
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
BRIAN ENO