Brian Eno Long Quotations

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.