Explore Quotes by Brian Eno

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

American television really is pathetic.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them.

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

Being an artist is a job for life.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

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.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

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.

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.