Brian Eno Reluctant Quotations

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.