It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think 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
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
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — 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
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. — 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… — 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
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on… — 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
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out… — 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
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I… — 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,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another. — 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
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think that there's something that I still like about the fact of a package, like the latest report from somebody. "Okay,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I've finally got the title, I think, "Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I… — 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
![“There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with…” quote by Brian Eno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3a8/brian-eno-776_becoming_there-s-a-kind-of-edge-to-what-you-re-do_1618456.jpg)
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