“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.”

English musician, record producer and artist

Brian Eno is an English musician, record producer and artist. He is known for his work in ambient, electronic, and generative music, as well as for producing, recording, and writing across rock and pop. He has described himself as a "non-musician" with little interest in virtuosity, and has argued for treating the studio as a tool for composition. His reputation rests on work that helped shape experimental approaches within popular music.