For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. Brian Eno More Quotes by Brian Eno More Quotes From Brian Eno 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 mysteriousrecordspeople You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. Brian Eno kindnessbelievethinking I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them. Brian Eno used You can't really imagine music without technology. Brian Eno imaginetechnology Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do? Brian Eno you-choose I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you. Brian Eno innocencewantfeelings I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do. Brian Eno free-jazzmusicalwant When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. Brian Eno unclesdonelying We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. Brian Eno musicalspacewriting People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words. Brian Eno songpeoplethinking 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. Brian Eno musicalinterestingmoving Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish. Brian Eno flirtingplayideas 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. Brian Eno richcertainmessages In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...' Brian Eno would-bechildrenpeople Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. Brian Eno seriousnesspopsmusician 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 skillslongyears Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! Brian Eno monotonousshouldfirsts I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. Brian Eno evangelicalkindatheist 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 richcomplicatedsound Being an artist is a job for life. Brian Eno being-an-artistartistjobs
