'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.' Brian Eno albumawakeblunder share on social
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. Brian Eno artgoodidea Change image and share on social
When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in. Brian Eno alertnesscountrydefensive share on social
I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. Brian Eno americankidlisten Change image and share on social
I do love being in my studio. Especially at night. Brian Eno lovenightstudio Change image and share on social
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 constrainequivalentfree Change image and share on social
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 backgroundengineerfunction Change image and share on social
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities. Brian Eno arithmeticboxchess share on social
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. Brian Eno adjectivegoodpopular Change image and share on social
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 20thambitionart Change image and share on social