Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDIis an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. He is best known for his pioneering work in ambient and electronic music as well as his influential contributions to rock, worldbeat, chance, and generative music styles. A self-described "non-musician," Eno has advocated a methodology of "theory over practice" throughout his career, and has helped to introduce a variety of unique recording techniques and conceptual approaches into...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusic Producer
Date of Birth15 May 1948
The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Painting, I think it's like jazz.
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.