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
I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.
Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?
Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.