Best Quotes Of The Day

Brian Eno

From a professional perspective he is mostly referred to simply as Eno. He is a British musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist. Eno is known as one of the main innovators of ambient music.

He pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, such as art installations. He also has a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine and Oblique Strategies. This is a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks are intended to resolve dilemmas. He continues to collaborate with famous musicians and produce records, but he also releases his own music.

Date of birth:: 15th May, 1948

"Everybody is entertained to death."

Topic(s): Death

"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."

Topic(s): Work

"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."

Topic(s): Music

"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."

Topic(s): Art

"I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."

Topic(s): Technology

"I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!"

Topic(s): Music

"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."

Topic(s): Experience

"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 the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue."

Topic(s): Great

"I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years."

Topic(s): Great

"I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders."

Topic(s): Music

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