Brian Eno

Every collaboration helps you grow.

— Brian Eno

Law is always better than war.

— Brian Eno

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

— Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

— Brian Eno

Being an artist is a job for life.

— Brian Eno

Everybody is entertained to death.

— Brian Eno

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

— Brian Eno

I'm a painter in sound.

— Brian Eno

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

— Brian Eno

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

— Brian Eno

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

— Brian Eno

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

— Brian Eno

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

— Brian Eno

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

— Brian Eno

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

— Brian Eno

You can't really imagine music without technology.

— Brian Eno

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave…

— Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

— Brian Eno

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

— Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to…

— Brian Eno

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones…

— Brian Eno

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

— Brian Eno

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

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

— Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that…

— Brian Eno

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to…

— Brian Eno

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy…

— Brian Eno

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

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize…

— Brian Eno

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

— Brian Eno

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation,…

— Brian Eno

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music…

— Brian Eno

In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out…

— Brian Eno

The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important.…

— Brian Eno

I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take…

— Brian Eno

The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven…

— Brian Eno

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how…

— Brian Eno

When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the…

— Brian Eno

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,…

— Brian Eno

I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last…

— Brian Eno