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
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.