Quote

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

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
Started
Equipment
Rich
Feed
Working
Complexes
Sound
Boxes
Enjoy
Complex
Comes
Rhythm
Many
Sounds
Things
Complicated

More quotes by 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
The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.
Brian Eno
Image
I'm very opinionated.
Brian Eno
Image
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
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
What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.
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 do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'
Brian Eno
Image
Repetition doesn't really exist
Brian Eno
Image
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
Brian Eno
Image
If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
Brian Eno
Image
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
Brian Eno
Image
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
Brian Eno
Image
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
Brian Eno
Image
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
Brian Eno
Image
I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.
Brian Eno
Image
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory that's when you do your best work.
Brian Eno
Image
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.
Brian Eno
Image
Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?
Brian Eno
Image
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
Brian Eno