Brian Eno Quotes

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Music is always on. Not at work. But at home, everything always has to have a soundtrack.

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.

The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.

These days, you're always surrounded by music and sounds, whether you're in the mall or a subway car.

Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'

We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.

On the song 'Step,' the chorus is Ezra is singing into my laptop with the laptop microphone, and you can hear the trains going by my apartment, but we liked the quality of that recording.

I'm a big fan of music. I need to be listening to music most of the time during the day.

At the end of the day, I think having some life experience is helpful to play any kind of music.

For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.

I want my songs to be enjoyed by those who travel in a town bus and they should be played repeatedly in a tea shop.

There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?'

When you have live music in the background, people are usually talking over it. You don't actually get to listen to live music in your space all the time.