black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

Brian Eno

In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
BRIAN ENO

Come Future Interesting Out Thinking
I believe in singing.
BRIAN ENO

Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
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

Country Weight Years
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
BRIAN ENO

Best Minutes Written
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
BRIAN ENO

Music People Thinking
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

Hands People Sloppiness
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.
BRIAN ENO

Fabulous Sound Use
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
BRIAN ENO

Enthusiasm Everything Good
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

Atmosphere Matters References What Writing
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
BRIAN ENO

Computer Enough Problem
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

Bored Retrospect Thinking
You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
BRIAN ENO

Act Doing Knows
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

Interesting Moving Musical
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
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
BRIAN ENO

Guitar Pounds Years
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren’t clear when it was just floating around in your head.
BRIAN ENO

Clear Floating Ideas

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brian Eno Quotes