Explore Quotes by Brian Eno

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

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

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

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.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

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

My shows are not narratives.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

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.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

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

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

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

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