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
You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.
Think inside the work - outside the work
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.
I often work by avoidance.
Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.