“Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” AbleInterestingLevelsAttentionParticularListeningAccommodateAmbientAmbient Music Author:Brian Eno
“I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindStillsDifferentBigsCertainDifferencesPayAttentionObjectsListeningHandleTreatedCommandPsychologicalPay AttentionDifferent WaysExpensiveTransitionFragileReverenceCdsFormatStanceVinyl Author:Brian Eno
“The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file; I don't know what instrument he was playing them on; I know nothing about his section of the sound of the piece, and then when I'm sitting on trains I do a lot of train travel I turn them into pieces of music. And I love to do that; it's my favorite hobby.” KnowsWellsPlayTurnsGamesSoundPiecesBrotherListeningMusicianSittingInstrumentsTrainMy FavoriteMy BrotherHobbiesSectionsListening To MusicFilesKeyboardsHeadphonesMidiFavorite Hobby Author:Brian Eno
“Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.” PeopleWayMeanDifferentSocialTechnologyGroupsListeningNew WaysVolumeDifferent PlaceNew MusicSocial Groups Author:Brian Eno
“Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.” ThinkingKnowsWayCertainEnjoySoundPleasureListeningFindingsNew Ways Author:Brian Eno
“When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.” TryingSometimesRunningInterestingSituationListeningTrackThings Happen Author:Brian Eno
“Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.” LongStoriesPiecesHeardListeningHearingSentencesLong Story Author:Brian Eno
“If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.” IfsWantFeelsEmotionListeningLetting GoSurrenderAmbient Music Author:Brian Eno
“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.” PeopleIfsShouldHardEasyListeningAmbientAmbient Music Author:Brian Eno
“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.” ImportantAttentionCasesRecordsFrontsEmotionalListeningMusicianAspectTensionRelaxedSpectatorsLive Music Author:Brian Eno
