Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“You talk to me as if from a distance And I reply with impressions chosen from another time.” — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“On the end of an era "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of… — 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
![“There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with…” quote by Brian Eno](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3a8/brian-eno-776_becoming_there-s-a-kind-of-edge-to-what-you-re-do_1618456.jpg)
