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Brian Eno Biography

Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI (/ˈiːnoʊ/; born 15 May 1948 and originally christened Brian Peter George Eno) is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. He is best known for his pioneering work in ambient music and contributions to rock, pop, electronic, and generative music. A self-described "non-musician", Eno has helped to introduce a variety of unique conceptual approaches and recording techniques into contemporary music, advocating a methodology of "theory over practice" throughout his career. He has been described as one of popular music's most influential and innovative figures.

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People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

Lyrics, People, Song, Songs, Thinking

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

2001, America, Events, September, Shock

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Creativity, Music, Supplement, Supplements, World

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Feedback, Loop, Results, Strong, Totally

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

Different, Doors, Musical, Recording, Sign

I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.

Ambiguity, Mexican, Nice, Playing, Track, Tracks

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Already, Discovered, Speech, Stuff, Technique

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

Crazy, Look, Song, Sort, Write, Writing

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Constantly, Myth, Needs, Pricked, Stupid, Thinking

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Adjective, Adjectives, Popular, Populism, Populist

I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo. " And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.

Cutting, Idea, Possibility, Real, Studios, Thinking

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm, Everything, Good, Proceeds

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

Carry, Know, Mysterious, People, Records, Sell

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

Appreciated, Cage, Cages, John, Noise

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Become, Control, Immortal, Part

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

Executing, Littles, Programmer, Results, Roles

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

All The Best, Lyrics, Minutes, Written

People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music. " But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.

Concept, Electronic, Focus, People, Real, Right

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Chords, Cutting, Guitar, Play, Strings

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

Alive, Cds, Interesting, Things

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