Brian Eno

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening, ' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.