Music Quotes

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Brian Eno

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

Brian Eno

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Brian Eno

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

Brian Eno

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Brian Eno

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Brian Eno

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Brian Eno

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Brian Eno

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear o...

Brian Eno

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Brian Eno

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Brian Eno

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

Brian Eno

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

Brian Eno

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

Brian Eno

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Brian Eno

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Brian Eno

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

Brian Eno

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

Bela Fleck

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

Bela Fleck

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Ben Folds