Brian Eno Quotes

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

No one has bridged that gap between music and technology yet.

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

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

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

Music's always been at the heart of Apple. It's deep in our DNA. We've sold Macs to musicians since the beginning of Macs.

People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.

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.

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'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.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

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.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.