Brian Eno Quotes

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.

I don't listen to my own music at home.

I always have my Bose headphones. I have to have the noise-cancelling headphones.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

I don't listen to a ton of rock music.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

I have a thing for earphones - I have five types.

I don't listen to music. I never have done.

I have to have my Beats Studio3 noise-canceling headphones with me on long flights.

You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.

Joy is in the ears that hear.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

To me, an untrained ear, a young person at the time, I would hear off the different feels, all these different sounds, and then years later realize that everyone had used the same equipment, just to their own ends.

I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

When I am willing, all sound is available to me.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it.

I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah." I think there's something wrong with my headphones.