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
My shows are not narratives.
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
Painting, I think it's like jazz.
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.