Brian Eno quotes

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting. (Brian Eno)
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
Brian Eno
The computer brings out the worst in some people.
Brian Eno
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
Brian Eno
Law is always better than war.
Brian Eno
The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
Brian Eno
Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
Brian Eno
Try to make things that can become better in other people's minds than they were in yours.
Brian Eno
The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.
Brian Eno
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Brian Eno
At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly." (Brian Eno)
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
Brian Eno
You can't really imagine music without technology.
Brian Eno
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
Brian Eno
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
Brian Eno
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
Brian Eno
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
Brian Eno
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
Brian Eno
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Brian Eno
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Brian Eno
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. (Brian Eno)
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian Eno
As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
Brian Eno
The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.
Brian Eno
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
Brian Eno