Brian Eno Quotes

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.

My music lives because of real players.

I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.

Your time is spent making records, planning, touring - not counting the days until another guy's concert. There are some newer artists I like in a casual, passing way, but I couldn't tell you the bass player's name or name two songs off of their new record.

Producers are the people behind the biggest artists in the game. We definitely deserve that title to be considered as an artist, because producers don't get the recognition and the credit that they really deserve a lot of the time.

Queen Latifah once came up to me and said 'Bebot' was her favorite song. She said, 'I don't know what you're talking about, but it feels dope!'

One thing Drake is known for is putting out good, quality music. To acknowledge me and my music was all I needed to hear from anybody. Nobody could tell me anything after that.

I am amused with the love people are showing for my songs. I am really happy to see my fans enjoying my music and loving the music I make.

I love having my voice on my songs now, but it also means a lot to hear that another artist likes your song enough to cut it and put it on their album. It's a special kind of compliment.

Radio has had my back since 'Missin' You Crazy,' which was a very traditional kind of song.

I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's the artist you like.

I'm so happy people have enjoyed listening to my tracks.

It was ages ago now, but when we started Bastille, I didn't necessarily want people to know or care if it was a band, and it came from a place, really, of just much rather having people listen to the songs rather than caring about the people making it.

Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that.

There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all.

There is a layer of Armaan's voice in the hook line of 'Kar gayi chull' and it was mainly his voice there, but he wasn't credited in the track.

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.