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
More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
You can't really imagine music without technology.
W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.
I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.
I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.