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'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
My shows are not narratives.
I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.
You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.