Brian Eno
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"Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno", Royal Designers for Industry/RDI, professionally known as "Brian Eno" or simply "Eno", is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.

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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.