57 quotes by Brian Eno

“I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.” — Brian Eno

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“If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.” — Brian Eno

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“If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.” — Brian Eno

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“I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.” — Brian Eno

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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

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“I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.” — Brian Eno

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“Law is always better than war.” — Brian Eno

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“I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!” — Brian Eno

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“Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.” — Brian Eno

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

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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

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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

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“I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.” — Brian Eno

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“It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.” — Brian Eno

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“I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.” — Brian Eno

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“I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.” — Brian Eno

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“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.” — Brian Eno

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“I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.” — Brian Eno

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“Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.” — Brian Eno

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“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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“For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.” — Brian Eno

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“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.” — Brian Eno

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“Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.” — Brian Eno

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“One often makes music to supplement one's world.” — Brian Eno

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“I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.” — Brian Eno

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