Brian Eno Quotes

A-ha is not me, Paul, or Magne: it is its own individual that has its own identity and characteristics. It is a result of a particular meeting point between the three of us.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked.

My dream collaboration is with Lauryn Hill. Is that ever gonna' happen? Who knows! But there's still a lot I feel like musically I could do.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.

Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.

My dream collaboration is with Lauryn Hill. Is that ever gonna happen? Who knows!

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

One thing that I have thought ever since Temple of the Dog is that I would never say no to an interesting collaboration, and that's partly where Audioslave came from.

'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.

A lot of my favourite songs have Eno involved, but I love the work he does on the first two Roxy Music albums. He's creating atmospheres as opposed to composition, and it's a beautiful mixture with everything else in that band.

I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

The 'Aldous Harding' record isn't easily placed because it wasn't trying to sound like anything. It was quite organic.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I love collaborations because they take your music in a different way.

The Sekrets record is very much me, and Dan's Emergency Room is very much him. And then Alkaline Trio is very much ours.

I instinctively felt Pancham and Gulzarbhai were meant to make music together.

I don't love collabs just for the sake of collaborating. It has to be purposeful and it needs to sonically make sense.

... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.