top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Music quotes
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
Explore more quotes by Brian Eno
"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."
"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."
"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."
"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."
"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."
"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."
"For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards."
"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."
"I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice."
"I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there."
bottom of page