486 Quotes by Brian Eno

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.

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

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.

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

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

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.