Brian Eno Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

  Brian Eno

  Dream, Song, Night

  "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with David Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 1, 2011.

• In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

  Brian Eno

  Song, People, Track

• 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.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Thinking, People

• Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Fire, Performances

• At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

  Brian Eno

  Song, Couple, Party

  "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

• I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Hate, Land

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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

  Brian Eno

  Song, Crazy, Writing

  "Brian Eno: from the Velvet Underground to Burial". Interview with Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.

• I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 2, 2009.

• I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Paper, Structure

• Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used - maybe a particular type of electronic organ or an echo unit. Then I just dabble with sounds until something starts to happen that suggests a texture. The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That's like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Couple, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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