“I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.” KnowsDoneWholeBigsWantedProcessEnjoyWaterKnow HowInternetInvolvedMusic IsDetailsLabelsBottles Author:Brian Eno
“Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.” KnowsWellsStillsImportantWholeFactsBodyHandsStuffPlayerExampleMusicianMusic IsHappeningsSittingTraditionalAssumptionMusclesLiteracyTransfers Author:Brian Eno
“I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.” PeopleThinkingIdeasWalksInterestingCreatingMusic IsVery InterestingSoundtracks Author:Brian Eno
“The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.” AgeEvilTroubleMusic IsNew Age Author:Brian Eno
“Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.” BigsFilmSoundQualityGoneMusic IsScalesAwfulCinemaConcertsDisgustingShockingBulbsLarge ScaleLive MusicProjectors Author:Brian Eno
“Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.” ThinkingSpaceMusic IsCalmAmbientAmbient Music Author:Brian Eno
“The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.” PeopleImportantPiecesMusic IsImportant ThingsSeducing Author:Brian Eno
“What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.” WritingMatterModernMusic IsAtmosphereTunesAssociationWhat MattersTextureModern Music Author:Brian Eno
“Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.” WantDoneMusic IsResearchGladAvant Garde Author:Brian Eno
“Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.” PeopleThinkingMusic IsMislead Author:Brian Eno
