Brian Eno

Eno turns questions about records into usable arguments about creativity, tools and the conditions in which ideas develop. His 2013 Red Bull Music Academy conversation with Emma Warren is a good introduction: the discussion ranges from installations to the practical problem of deciding when a piece is finished. He can be mischievous while remaining precise about process. Choose a long exchange rather than a quotation collection, and follow how a small studio question becomes a larger way of thinking about making things.