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
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
I love good, loud speakers.
I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
American television really is pathetic.
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?"