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. Brian Eno on music
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs. Brian Eno on music
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of. Brian Eno on music
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones. Brian Eno on music
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. Brian Eno on music
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. Brian Eno on music
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth. Brian Eno on music
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. Brian Eno on music
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. Brian Eno on music
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. Brian Eno on music
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. Brian Eno on music
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish. Brian Eno on music
One often makes music to supplement one's world. Brian Eno on music
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. Brian Eno on music
Most game music is based on loops effectively. Brian Eno on music
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. Brian Eno on music
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. Brian Eno on music
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. Brian Eno on music
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. Brian Eno on music
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. Brian Eno on music