1,004 Quotes Regarding 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

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

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

One often makes music to supplement one's world.
Brian Eno

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

Most game music is based on loops effectively.
Brian Eno

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
Brian Eno

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
Brian Eno

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

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Brian Eno

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

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
Brian Eno

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
Brian Eno

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Denis Diderot

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
Tori Amos

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.
Tori Amos

I don't see music as working.
Tori Amos

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
Tori Amos

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
Tori Amos

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.
Tori Amos