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.
BRIAN ENOThe whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
More Brian Eno Quotes
-
-
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
BRIAN ENO -
Culture is everything you don’t have to do.
BRIAN ENO -
I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.
BRIAN ENO -
People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
BRIAN ENO -
I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
BRIAN ENO -
The handbook always tells you what it does, and you can be quite sure that if it’s a complex device it can do at least fifteen other things that weren’t predicted in the handbook, or that they didn’t consider desirable. It’s normally those other things that interest me.
BRIAN ENO -
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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 -
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENO -
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‘Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this’ – have become commonplace in films and music too.
BRIAN ENO -
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
BRIAN ENO -
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
BRIAN ENO -
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
BRIAN ENO -
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.
BRIAN ENO -
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
BRIAN ENO