Brian Eno

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. ↗

— Brian Eno

#focused #impressed #me #ones #past

The computer brings out the worst in some people. ↗

— Brian Eno

#computer #out #people #some #some people

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. ↗

— Brian Eno

#always #constantly #forget #get #i

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. ↗

— Brian Eno

#constructed #empirically #i #important #lyrics

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences. ↗

— Brian Eno

#differences #distances #drag #i #idea

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. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric

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. ↗

— Brian Eno

#could #furniture #meant #music #part

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation. ↗

— Brian Eno

#band #deal #enough #front #how

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. ↗

— Brian Eno

#art #art world #good #good idea #idea

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ↗

— Brian Eno

#had #history #intrusions #music #occasional