Quotes About Eno

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In some ways, I have looked to his career as a model for my own.

Marc Almond: David came along with this thing called a synthesizer, which at that time we only really knew from the likes of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, who had huge banks of them. Eno had used one in Roxy Music, and I remember them on The Old Grey Whistle Test playing a ten-minute version of 'Ladytron', one of the greatest things I've ever seen on television.

Pop culture didn't actually need an Andy Warhol to make it postmodern. Rock 'n' roll was never anything but a faked-up blues—something that the glam-era Bowie had understood perfectly. (Eno: "Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.")

A lot of my favourite songs have Eno involved, but I love the work he does on the first two Roxy Music albums. He's creating atmospheres as opposed to composition, and it's a beautiful mixture with everything else in that band.

Eno, in leopard-skin chemise and trowelled-on foundation looked sleek, seedy and android-like – although his clenched pose suggested a man passing a troublesome stool.

Bryan Ferry would abandon overt glam threads in favour of classically tailored tuxedos, US military uniforms and an infamous gaucho look. Ironically, Ferry then began to draw a considerable gay male following while Eno, slavered in cosmetics and done up like a camp Christmas tree, became – much to his own satisfaction – an unlikely object of lust for legions of adolescent girls.

I remember 'Virginia Plain' being on Top of the Pops, and everyone was talking about it the next day. Eno was bald on top with shoulder-length hair at the sides, and he was wearing a feather boa and a silver catsuit.