Top 197 Quotes by Brian Eno

About Brian Eno

These are some quotes by British author Brian Eno Musician, who was born on May 15, 1948.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Brian Eno

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Brian Eno

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.

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

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

Brian Eno

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

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.

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

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.

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

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

Brian Eno

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

Brian Eno

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Brian Eno

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