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Brian Eno

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Brian Eno (born 1948) is an English musician, composer, visual artist, and record producer who is widely regarded as a pioneer of ambient music. From his early work with Roxy Music to producing albums for U2, David Bowie, and Talking Heads, Eno has consistently pushed creative boundaries across art and technology.

“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”

— Brian Eno

Change

All Quotes by Brian Eno

“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.”

— Brian Eno

Religion

“Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.”

— Brian Eno

Future

“Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.”

— Brian Eno

History

“Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.”

— Brian Eno

Technology

“I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”

— Brian Eno

Change

“Everybody is entertained to death.”

— Brian Eno

Death

“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.”

— Brian Eno

Computers

“I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.”

— Brian Eno

Music

“Law is always better than war.”

— Brian Eno

War

“One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.”

— Brian Eno

Art