I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get… — 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
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think everyone's inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, 'Well,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many… — 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
People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it. — 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
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart… — 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
