Top 197 Quotes by Brian Eno

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

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.

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

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.