Brian Eno Quotes

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

I won't say I'm analog. I'm not like Jack White. I'm more like 1991.

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.

Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was recorded, and the medium adjusted.

The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I first started playing music.

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat superhuman.

When The B-52s started in the late '70s, music and the business was totally different. Obviously, it's easier for everyone to be able to work with music, record, and get good quality.

As a technology guy, and someone in music, I'm on top of technology and social media.

Everyone's on their phones, and everyone makes things with the aid of some electronic tool. Electronic music is no different.

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

I don't really listen to my old stuff, but on occasion, I would either hear a track on the radio or a friend might play me one, and there was generally a bit of an edgy sound to it, which was mainly due to the digital equipment that we were using, which was state of the art at the time - and I think everyone felt pressured to be working that way.