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
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. Brian Eno on music
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. Brian Eno on music
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. Brian Eno on religion
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. Brian Eno on religion
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. Brian Eno on religion
You can't really imagine music without technology. Brian Eno on technology
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. Brian Eno on technology
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. Brian Eno on technology