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.
Everybody is entertained to death. - Brian Eno
Everybody is entertained to death.
- Brian Eno
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. - Brian Eno
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason. - Brian Eno
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, … - Brian Eno
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, …
Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience. - Brian Eno
Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being. - Brian Eno
All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. - Brian Eno
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of lit… - Brian Eno
Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of lit…
John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated. - Brian Eno
John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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