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
Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
I think, if you spend a day or as many people do a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
Law is always better than war.
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.