Brian Eno Quotes

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

Focus on your music and not technology.

I freestyle, but I'd rather sit down and write down my music to map out what I'm doing. But if I'm out with my friends, I will freestyle, you know?

I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

I write music visually.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.