486 Quotes by Brian Eno

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.