Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I had an interesting day. I was in the studio with a group of musicians, who shall remain nameless, and I said… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks… — 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
![“I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this…” quote by Brian Eno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/brian-eno-776_courses_i-hate-the-thought-that-someone-had-pick_211975.jpg)