Brian Eno Quotes

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

I try to pick music for a diner that doesnt involve a lot of lyrics, so you're not paying attention to that. As long as it doesnt dominate the party, it should be more atmosphere music. When I'm by myself, I never play music.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I wanted there to be something to fill the space and to catch the listener's ear, but I didn't want there to be any 'Virtual Self' songs that had a clearly defined vocal with lyrics and top line. If you do hear any lyrics, it's just your brain filling in the gap, because those moments are just various syllables combined.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

To be interesting, be interested.

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them.

If you're a smart writer, you listen.

I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.

You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.

Isn't it amazing how much better you listen when you are in need?

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

Are you listening, little bird?

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.

Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them