Brian Eno Quotes

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

Repetition doesn't really exist

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

My shows are not narratives.

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.