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.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Brian Eno

You can't really imagine music without technology.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Brian Eno

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

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

Brian Eno

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Brian Eno

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Brian Eno

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Brian Eno

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

I take sounds and change them into words.

I take sounds and change them into words.

Brian Eno

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

Brian Eno

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

Brian Eno

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