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
One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather… — 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
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh, it's great, lots… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at… — 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 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
