Brian Eno Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.”

“Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.”

“I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!”

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

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

“In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.”

“I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.”

“I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.”

“I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.”

“In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.”