Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. Brian Eno More Quotes by Brian Eno More Quotes From Brian Eno 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 evaluationfeelingsideas When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. Brian Eno weightcountryyears I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that. Brian Eno personalityideasthinking I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant. Brian Eno choiratheistknows 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. Brian Eno emotionalimportantlistening I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. Brian Eno aquariumsessentialsvoice The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. Brian Eno furniturethinking When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. Brian Eno selflyingpeople I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect Brian Eno duplicatecreationhappens 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 musicaldifferentdoors I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor. Brian Eno self-confidencekeysbelieve The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation. Brian Eno bandenoughplay I take sounds and change them into words. Brian Eno sound My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. Brian Eno ablekindknowing What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations. Brian Eno atmospherewhat-matterswriting Everybody is entertained to death. Brian Eno As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me. Brian Eno cornymoodsound Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence. Brian Eno constraintsincompetenceskeletons With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world. Brian Eno fashionplayworld A part of me has become immortal, out of my control. Brian Eno immortal
