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
I dont live in the past at all Im always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. – Brian Eno
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldnt if you knew better. – Brian Eno
Something Ive realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if were smart about it. – Brian Eno
Ive noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if its far enough in the future. – Brian Eno
Ive had quite a lot of luck with dreams. Ive often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head. – Brian Eno
Its not the destination that matters. Its the change of scene. – Brian Eno
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesnt mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but theyre happy if they do get it. – Brian Eno
One of the things youre doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right. – Brian Eno
Law is always better than war. – Brian Eno
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. – Brian Eno
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. – Brian Eno
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth. – Brian Eno
Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. – Brian Eno
Most game music is based on loops effectively. – Brian Eno
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. – Brian Eno
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. – Brian Eno
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. – Brian Eno
