Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. — Brian Eno Copy Share
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! — Brian Eno Copy Share
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being… — Brian Eno Copy Share
I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you… — Brian Eno Copy Share
If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving… — Brian Eno Copy Share
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing. — Brian Eno Copy Share
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but… — Brian Eno Copy Share
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. — Brian Eno Copy Share
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then… — Brian Eno Copy Share
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said to them… — Brian Eno Copy Share
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