Quote

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Brian Eno

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
Composer
Musician
Painter
Photographer
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Writer
Borough of Melton
Eno
Brian Peter George Eno
Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno
Thinking
Everybody
Values
Import
Jobs
Imports
Wells
Technologies
Come
Transparent
Well
Thinks
Whole
Along
Always
Technology

More quotes by Brian Eno

Image
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
Brian Eno
Image
I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.
Brian Eno
Image
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
Brian Eno
Image
When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.
Brian Eno
Image
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
Brian Eno
Image
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
Brian Eno
Image
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
Brian Eno
Image
Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Brian Eno
Image
I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
Brian Eno
Image
Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results
Brian Eno
Image
A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
Brian Eno
Image
I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
Brian Eno
Image
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian Eno
Image
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
Brian Eno
Image
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, Who's the bass player? Who did that? Who's the engineer on this?
Brian Eno
Image
The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
Brian Eno
Image
I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. Okay, this is what they're up to now this is what they're doing who's working with them?
Brian Eno
Image
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.
Brian Eno
Image
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards I thought that was great for years.
Brian Eno
Image
The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
Brian Eno