Brian Eno Quotes

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

I really think only Erykah Badu can be Erykah Badu.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

I'll never forget when I heard Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs for the first time. I was just blown away, and it changed my whole approach to guitar.

I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.

Bjork's album, 'Homogenic,' it's got beats, strings, traditional Icelandic stuff. That's my benchmark for what an album should sound like, right up there with Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' and Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On.'

I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson.

I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.

We all like all of that, from 'Rubber Soul' to 'The White Album' and all of that, but even before, we were into that theatrical element of things. We didn't want to do a 'Sgt. Pepper's' thing.

I was heavily influenced by Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz, but I kind of wanted to take it somewhere else.

Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.

I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.