About Brian Eno: Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.
It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from diffe...
The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a pop star you're getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn't rise above your station, and to start ...
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
The computer brings out the worst in some people.
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn't an MP3.
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.
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.
I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
