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Brian Eno
May 15, 1948 -
Nationality: British
Category: Musician
Subcategory: British Musician

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

   

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

   

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

   

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

   

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

   

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

   

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

   

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

   

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

   

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

   

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

   

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

   

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

   

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

   

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.

   

I take sounds and change them into words.

   

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

   

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

   

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

   

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.

   

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