Music

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

One often makes music to supplement ones world. – Brian Eno

Ive got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. – Brian Eno

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that thats what the music is about. – 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

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that havent been made easier technically. – Brian Eno