Brian Eno Quotes

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

Not to name names, but a lot of pop female artists you see, they don't write their own songs. Lot of top male artists and boy band artists, they don't write their own songs. They're just a product. They sell, they sell, they sell. They don't care about musical integrity, any of that kind of stuff.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it.

Managing yourself, writing and performing your own music can teach you a lot.

My goal is to make music and be a part of cool projects.

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

Artists who are passionate about their music and in love with their art go independent because they want to continue making music and serving it to the world.

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.