Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations. 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 mysterious records people 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 kindness believe thinking 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 imagine technology 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 innocence want feelings 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-jazz musical want 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 uncles done lying 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 musical space writing 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 song people thinking 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 musical interesting moving 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 flirting play ideas 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 rich certain messages 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-be children people Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. Brian Eno seriousness pops musician 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 skills long years Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! Brian Eno monotonous should firsts I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. Brian Eno evangelical kind atheist 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 rich complicated sound Being an artist is a job for life. Brian Eno being-an-artist artist jobs
