Explore Quotes by Brian Eno

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

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.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.