486 Quotes by Brian Eno

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

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

I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

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.

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.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn’t a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn’t appreciated.