Quote

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

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
Political
Music
Way
Suggests
Dimensions

More quotes by Brian Eno

Image
I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.
Brian Eno
Image
Painting, I think it's like jazz.
Brian Eno
Image
When I've finally got the title, I think, Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.
Brian Eno
Image
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
Brian Eno
Image
It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
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 often work by avoidance.
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
I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.
Brian Eno
Image
If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
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
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
Brian Eno
Image
You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.
Brian Eno
Image
Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.
Brian Eno
Image
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
Brian Eno
Image
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
Brian Eno
Image
The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
Brian Eno
Image
I take sounds and change them into words.
Brian Eno
Image
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
Brian Eno
Image
Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.
Brian Eno