486 Quotes by Brian Eno

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

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.

Being an artist is a job for life.