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.
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Brian Eno
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About Brian Eno
Brian Eno is an English musician, record producer and artist. He is known for his pioneering contributions to ambient and generative music, and for producing, recording, and writing works in rock and pop music. He describes himself as a "non-musician" uninterested in virtuosity, and advocates for using the studio as a compositional tool. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Brian EnoI think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
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.
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I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
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.
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
You can't really imagine music without technology.
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 impo…
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
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.
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.
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion…
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of t…
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the futu…
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.