Brian Eno

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The Ezra Klein Show · A Breath of Fresh Air With Brian Eno · 3 Oct 2025 podcast

And I think there are many people who I would call artists who never experience any difficulty with what they're doing.

It's just what they do.

People who make beautiful cakes, for example.

One of my daughters loves doing um mouse pan decorations on cakes, and they're beautiful the things she makes.

But I'm sure she wouldn't call that being an artist, but I can't see what the difference is.

You know, why why is that not being an artist?

So that's one of the other art world things that in order to make it valuable to justify the high prices, we've got to think of some way of kind of making it seem abnormal, making it seem like something that only abnormal humans can do.

At best what I'm doing is

Thinking.

I often start something by thinking, I I wish there was a piece of music like this, whatever this means in my mind.

For instance, one of my best known records is music for airports, and that came from a very direct experience like that of sitting in a a newly built airport in Germany, near Cologne, and everything about the airport was dazzlingly beautiful.

It was

lovely structure.

And they had terrible German disco music playing really loud through the whole PA system in the airport.

And I just thought nobody's thought about this issue of what kind of music would belong in this place.

You know, we use music in public all the time, but

Does anybody actually sit down and think seriously?

What would be the best kind of music to have in this important place where people are arriving, leaving, going on to important new phases in their lives or going back to loved ones or whatever?

It ought to be something a bit more.

I I started thinking, what should it be more of?

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