Im very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. – Brian Eno
Im always interested in what you can do with technology that people havent thought of doing yet. – Brian Eno
Im actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. – Brian Eno
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that havent been made easier technically. – Brian Eno
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when youre listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. – Brian Eno
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that thats what the music is about. – Brian Eno
You cant really imagine music without technology. – Brian Eno
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of ones furniture. – Brian Eno
I hate the rock music tradition. I cant bear it! – Brian Eno
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. Youre glad someones done it but you dont necessarily want to listen to it. – Brian Eno
Id love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. – Brian Eno
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I dont set out to say anything very important. – Brian Eno
Its nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didnt think of. – Brian Eno
I dont like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones. – Brian Eno
I think were about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. – Brian Eno
People do dismiss ambient music, dont they? They call it easy listening, as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. – Brian Eno
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – Oh, lets put that sentence there, lets get rid of this – have become commonplace in films and music too. – Brian Eno
For instance, Im always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before. – Brian Eno
There are certain sounds that Ive found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. – Brian Eno
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music – not like a record that youd put on, which would play for a while and finish. – Brian Eno
