Quotes by Brian Eno

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.
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Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Brian Eno

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Brian Eno

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brian Eno

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

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I'm a painter in sound.

Brian Eno

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Brian Eno

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Brian Eno

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

Brian Eno

Although designers continue to dream of 'transparency' - technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt - both creators and audiences actually like technologies with 'personality.'

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

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I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'

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If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

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Painting, I think it's like jazz.

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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

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I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Brian Eno

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

Brian Eno

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameBrian Eno
  • DescriptionEnglish musician, composer, record producer and visual artist
  • BornMay 15, 1948
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComposer; Writer; Painter