Explore Quotes by Brian Eno

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

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.

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

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, and those are very important times.

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

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 listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.

Law is always better than war.

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results

Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who encouraged me, but the ones who took very strong positions. Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don't agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it - or chuck it away if they don't want it.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.