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
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 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
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at… — 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 believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used… — 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
