Culture is everything you don't have to do. Brian Eno More Quotes by Brian Eno More Quotes From Brian Eno It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of. Brian Eno nice people thinking Most game music is based on loops effectively. Brian Eno loops music-is games Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way. Brian Eno hitting trying interesting Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer. Brian Eno accepting Painting, I think it's like jazz. Brian Eno painting jazz thinking 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. Brian Eno easy listening people Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. Brian Eno attractive voice long The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. Brian Eno impressed artist past The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. Brian Eno important say-anything Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well. Brian Eno bugs ears people 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 artist being-happy mean I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. Brian Eno technology fun people In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. Brian Eno hip-hop house europe If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes. Brian Eno albums would-be ideas If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones. Brian Eno fabulous use sound I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it. Brian Eno guitar pounds years I do love being in my studio. Especially at night. Brian Eno studios night 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 looks past thinking I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there. Brian Eno spotlight behind-the-scenes roles I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs. Brian Eno release cds pieces