black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Brian Eno

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
BRIAN ENO

Microscopes Sound Use
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.
BRIAN ENO

Attention Interesting Listening
Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
BRIAN ENO

Being Choose Completely Difficult
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
BRIAN ENO

Important People Pieces Searching
Put out as much as you can. It doesn’t do anything sitting on a shelf.
BRIAN ENO

Much Shelves Sitting
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
BRIAN ENO

Life Mind Past Singular
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
BRIAN ENO

Fashion Play World
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

Carefully Look Reverences Vinyl
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
BRIAN ENO

Art Calling Philosophy
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

Decide Done Lying Teach Uncles
A big ego isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
BRIAN ENO

Ego Mean Risk
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
BRIAN ENO

Best Minutes Written
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can’t be a deep human being without it or any of them.
BRIAN ENO

Ideas Wrestling Yoga
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
BRIAN ENO

Beyond Reach Situation
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
BRIAN ENO

Detachable Furniture Thinking
As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
BRIAN ENO

Artist Being One Struggle

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brian Eno Quotes