Brian Eno Quotes

The album's not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums.

A hard copy? It's fire. People want vinyl and cassette tapes - it's just cool to be able to touch it and feel it.

I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience.

Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.

I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.

You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

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

For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.

I don't really listen to music. I don't. I watch television.

I think 12 songs is too much to listen to all at once. When I buy a record, I get to the fifth song, and then I don't get to really hear the rest of the record.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.

I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all.

A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.

I mean, I love buying albums, I'm obsessed, but now you just click 'add', don't you? And when do you actually listen to anything? You know, unless you're in the car or you've got time to do that, it's just not the same world any more in terms of concentration.

My problem is that we are all listening to music in a more disposable fashion.

I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track.

People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.

Any songs that I like, I sort of rinse them out.

People have got no attention span these days with music - I come from the time where I bought the whole album and listened to it back to back.