Brian Eno Quotes

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

I’m always interested in something when it isn’t familiar to me.

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

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

When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you’re trying to get in tune. That’s a principle because sometimes when the situation isn’t clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.

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

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

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

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

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