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Brian Eno - From the Achievement category:
People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Activity category:
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Ambition category:
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Artists category:
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Artists category:
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Audience category:
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Collaboration category:
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness... That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Collaboration category:
Every collaboration helps you grow. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Competition category:
If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14-year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Complexity category:
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Composition category:
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Contemporary Art category:
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Creativity category:
One often makes music to supplement one's world. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Culture category:
Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Danger category:
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Deception category:
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the 'lie' and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true... what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Dreams category:
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Earth category:
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Editing category:
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Emotion category:
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Evolution category:
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Fun category:
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Growth category:
Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Ideas category:
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Immortality category:
A part of me has become immortal, out of my control. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Interest category:
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Interest category:
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Leadership category:
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Listening category:
Listening to something is an act of surrender. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Listening category:
As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Magic category:
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Memory category:
I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.' (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Methodology category:
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Mistakes category:
Honor thy error as a hidden intention. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Music category:
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Music category:
You can't really imagine music without technology. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Music category:
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Music category:
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Mysteries category:
It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Nature category:
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)
Brian Eno - From the Optimism category:
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Painting category:
Painting, I think it's like jazz. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Painting category:
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Patriotism category:
I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Philosophy category:
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)
Brian Eno - From the Problems category:
The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Recognition category:
I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Religion category:
I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Religion category:
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Renewal category:
I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Repetition category:
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Selling category:
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)
Brian Eno - From the Shock category:
Aggressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Space category:
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Spectator category:
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Studio category:
I do love being in my studio. Especially at night. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Technology category:
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)
Brian Eno - From the Technology category:
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Theory category:
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Travel category:
It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Truth category:
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Understanding category:
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Unknowns category:
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Words category:
I take sounds and change them into words. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Words category:
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Work category:
I often work by avoidance. (Brian Eno)
Brian Eno - From the Work category:
I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking. (Brian Eno)
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