Brian Eno Want Quotations

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

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

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

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.