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

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing. — Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. — Brian Eno

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

Law is always better than war. — Brian Eno

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

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it. — Brian Eno

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

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

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. — Brian Eno

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness. — Brian Eno

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated. — Brian Eno

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

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. — Brian Eno

American television really is pathetic. — Brian Eno

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying. — Brian Eno

Painting, I think it's like jazz. — Brian Eno

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me. — Brian Eno

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten. — Brian Eno

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

When I've finally got the title, I think, "Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished." — Brian Eno

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear. — Brian Eno

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge. — Brian Eno

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

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing — Brian Eno

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

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. — Brian Eno

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it — Brian Eno

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface. — Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ. — Brian Eno

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is. — Brian Eno

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. — Brian Eno

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it! — Brian Eno

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before. — Brian Eno

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

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. — Brian Eno

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes. — Brian Eno

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems. — Brian Eno

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

Being an artist is a job for life. — Brian Eno

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

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. — Brian Eno

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

I take sounds and change them into words. — Brian Eno

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

I'm a painter in sound. — Brian Eno

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better. — Brian Eno

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.' — Brian Eno

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head. — Brian Eno

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter. — Brian Eno

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it. — Brian Eno

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me. — Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance. — Brian Eno

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in. — Brian Eno

Think inside the work - outside the work — Brian Eno

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

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

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop. — Brian Eno

You talk to me as if from a distance And I reply with impressions chosen from another time. — Brian Eno

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

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me. — Brian Eno

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well. — Brian Eno

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

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

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting. — Brian Eno

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

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. — Brian Eno

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

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

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

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes. — Brian Eno

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

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

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. — Brian Eno

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

Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument. — Jerry Harrison

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. — Brian Eno

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting. — Brian Eno

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. — Brian Eno

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later. — Brian Eno

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's. — Brian Eno

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

Honor thy error as a hidden intention. — Brian Eno

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

There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off. — Brian Eno

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

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable. — Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. — Brian Eno

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

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

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do. — Brian Eno

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. — Brian Eno

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control. — Brian Eno

The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz. — Brian Eno

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

Everybody is entertained to death. — Brian Eno

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together. — Brian Eno

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do? — Brian Eno

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of. — Brian Eno