Brian Eno Quotes

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the only sound you are left with is the high-pitched drone of your nervous system.

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

I love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.

Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds.

I consider it a great honor to be part of the dissemination of hearable art.

We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: 'Why are you calling it noise? It's not noise, it's music,' and make references to everybody from John Cage to whoever.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

Yoko Ono is someone who's music I've discovered more recently. The current cd rereleases of her albums all had bonus tracks recorded just with a tape recorder and I'm really into these at the moment because they have a great intimate feel.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.