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
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. Youre glad someones done it but you dont necessarily want to listen to it. – 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
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. – Brian Eno