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
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
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 think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being. — 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
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 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 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
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
I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another. — 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
I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody… — 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 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 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
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
