I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We have two different ways of working. One is completely unstructured where somebody just starts playing and somebody joins in and then… — 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 Image
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
