Brian Eno

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1,303 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 21 Jul

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

They've just used the presets.

And that seems to me a kind of mental laziness that I really don't think fits well with making new things.

I think the thing that really impressed me about Cage was not his music, which I didn't particularly care for after the 1940s, but his idea that being a composer was a kind of a practice in the sense of a religious or a spiritual or a philosophical practice.

And I thought that's the kind of artist I want to be.

I want to have a practice.

I want there to be.

to be resonances into other parts of my thinking.

I don't want it to just be something that I do on the weekends and then forget about.

So Cage with his book Silence was very important for me.

That came along at just the right time for me.

David Bowie.

Uh one of the most

committed artists I've ever worked with in the sense that he he really thought about what he was doing.

Just to tell you a short story, um I remember being in the studio with him doing he was doing a vocal on one of the songs.

I can't remember the song, but so he he does the vocal and he comes back into the control room listening back to he says, it's a bit lumberjack, isn't it?

And I knew exactly what he meant, and he said.

I think the guy should sound a little bit more nervous, like he's working in an office and he hasn't been there very long and doesn't quite know the how you're supposed to behave in the office.

Then he goes back out and does this other vocal, and suddenly you hear the transition from this confident, strong, hairy, macho guy to somebody who's a little bit timid and has doesn't quite know whether he should be saying the things he's saying.

And seeing him battery

fine tune that was very impressive.

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