Brian Eno

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. ”

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. ”

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me. ”

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach. ”

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years. ”

You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else. ”

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. ”

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. ”

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night. ”

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to. ”