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Brian Eno Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the british musician Brian Eno on topics like music, people, point

  • A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

    — Brian Eno on control
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  • For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

    — Brian Eno on contingent
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  • For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

    — Brian Eno on interesting
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  • It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

    — Brian Eno on change
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  • Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

    — Brian Eno on agressive
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  • As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

    — Brian Eno on hear
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  • At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

    — Brian Eno on 20th
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  • I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny.

    I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

    — Brian Eno on art
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  • The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music.

    I don't set out to say anything very important.

    — Brian Eno on constructed
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  • I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

    — Brian Eno on backwards
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  • Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

    — Brian Eno on aural
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  • I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

    — Brian Eno on bear
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  • About Brian Eno

    Name Brian Eno
    Quotes 48 quotations
    Nationality British
    Profession Musician
    Birthday 15 May 1948
    About Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno,RDI (born 15 May 1948 and originally christened Brian Peter George Eno), professionally known as Brian Eno or simply Eno, is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist.
    Top topics music, people, point, idea, interesting
  • Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

    — Brian Eno on aspect
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  • We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music.

    No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

    — Brian Eno on background
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  • One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

    — Brian Eno on generate
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  • I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general.

    They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

    — Brian Eno on amusement
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  • My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

    — Brian Eno on automatic
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  • I think generally playing live is a crap idea.

    So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

    — Brian Eno on crap
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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.

    — Brian Eno on bother
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  • 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 on box
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  • If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

    — Brian Eno on body
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  • 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.

    — Brian Eno on fit
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  • Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

    — Brian Eno on presents
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  • I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new.

    I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

    — Brian Eno on convincing
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  • 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.

    — Brian Eno on guitar
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  • I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

    — Brian Eno on considered
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  • People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics.

    To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

    — Brian Eno on assume
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  • I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight.

    I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

    — Brian Eno on extremely
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  • I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

    — Brian Eno on background
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  • 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 on carries
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  • Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon.

    It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

    — Brian Eno on monotonous
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  • 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 on background
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  • I often work by avoidance.

    — Brian Eno on avoidance
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  • 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 on brothers
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  • I take sounds and change them into words.

    — Brian Eno on change
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  • 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 on bar
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  • I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

    — Brian Eno on moving
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  • Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

    — Brian Eno on building
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  • I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

    — Brian Eno on creates
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  • The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

    — Brian Eno on computers
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  • If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

    — Brian Eno on echo
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  • In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format.

    Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

    — Brian Eno on format
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  • The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band.

    What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

    — Brian Eno on band
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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.

    — Brian Eno on country
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  • If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go.

    Listening to something is an act of surrender.

    — Brian Eno on act
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  • I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

    — Brian Eno on africa
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  • Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

    — Brian Eno on academia
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  • I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

    — Brian Eno on complexities
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