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
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
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
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
The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I dont think there is any point in having wars if thats how youre going to behave. Its pathetic. All this whining! – Rupert Everett