Brian Eno Quotes

Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player ...

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising ...

You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two ...

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't tha...

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only th...

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a cert...

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are al...

I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a w...

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

If we are ever going to achieve a rational approach to organizing our affairs, we have to dignify th...

I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, w...

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly...

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threa...

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappe...

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thi...

You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits,...

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness b...

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intel...

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I...

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generate...

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who jus...

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the a...

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by pa...

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional ...

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, activ...

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it give...

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a who...

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. Bu...