Quotes of Brian Eno - somelinesforyou

“ I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there. ”

- Brian Eno

“ Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. ”

- Brian Eno

“ My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. ”

- Brian Eno

“ I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. ”

- Brian Eno

“ When technology makes it perfect, art loses. ”

- Brian Eno

“ I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. ”

- Brian Eno

“ I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. ”

- Brian Eno

“ When technology makes it perfect, art loses. ”

- Brian Eno

“ A part of me has become immortal, out of my control. ”

- Brian Eno

“ Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! ”

- Brian Eno

“ I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ”

- Brian Eno

“ I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that. ”

- Brian Eno

“ I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. ”

- Brian Eno

“ When technology makes it perfect, art loses. ”

- Brian Eno

“ Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. ”

- Brian Eno

“ For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. ”

- Brian Eno

“ A part of me has become immortal, out of my control. ”

- Brian Eno

“ When technology makes it perfect, art loses. ”

- Brian Eno

“ For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards. ”

- Brian Eno

“ When technology makes it perfect, art loses. ”

- 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. ”

- Brian Eno

“ For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. ”

- Brian Eno

“ As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Brian Eno

“ I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. ”

- Brian Eno

“ As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me. ”

- Brian Eno

“ Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable. ”

- Brian Eno

“ I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ”

- Brian Eno
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