Explore Quotes by Brian Eno

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

I take sounds and change them into words.

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

Repetition doesn't really exist

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.