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
When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
Every collaboration helps you grow.
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.
Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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.
It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
I take sounds and change them into words.