486 Quotes by Brian Eno

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.'

I often work by avoidance.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.