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
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.
Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.
Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.