“A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start” LongCan DoMillionsRecordsPossibilityAbsolutesStudiosLabyrinthUseful Things Author:Brian Eno
“The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.” ImportantWholeMovingRecordsPiecesExampleTrackRelateTitlesCompositionSelectionMacro Author:Brian Eno
“I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsTryingWantedHateSongCoursesWalksRecordsLandOkayI HateExcitedDepartmentShopsDisappointedDeceived Author:Brian Eno
“I remember when in the early days of rock'n'roll, when everything sounded totally different, all amazing and blah blah blah blah blah. Now you can play me one second of any record from that time, and I'll say "1959" or "1961." I can hear precisely. It's like it has a huge date stamp on it.” I CanDifferentPlayRememberRecordsRocksHugeRock N RollStampsRemember WhenBlah Author:Brian Eno
“I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.” ThinkingTryingSongBitsRecordsProducersRepeatsLike SomethingNew Songs Author:Brian Eno
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” FilmBlackWhiteRecordsEventsUglyMediumsUncomfortableExcitementBlack And WhiteNastySignatures Author:Brian Eno
“I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.” PeopleIfsFormResponsibilityRecordsProducePaidBlameCreditCowardiceTaking ResponsibilityGood Records Author:Brian Eno
“It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.” PeopleKnowsRecordsSellsMysteriousBother Author:Brian Eno
“I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.” KindRecordsHistorical 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
“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.” KindIdeasPlayRecordsEndlessFlirting Author:Brian Eno
“When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.” IdeasMy OwnRecordsSingersBackgroundsDrowningForeground Author:Brian Eno
