Brian Eno Quotes

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

I love recording music.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.