All Brian Eno Quotes
- I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them. Funny
- The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can. All
- Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun. All
- Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list. Exhaustive
- The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them. Africa
- Law is always better than war. Always Better
- I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring. Bloody
- It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged. Attention
- Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been… All
- I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds. Hold
- Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither. Ideas
- The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing,… Always Feeling
- I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another. Art
- Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours. Become Better
- If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. Dead
- All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes. All
- I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people. Born
- I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's… Almost Always
- The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness. Collective
- Possessions are a way of turning money into problems. Inspirational
- The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you… Any
- In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it Art
- Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt… Certainty
- The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity. Creativity
- John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated. Appreciated