486 Quotes by Brian Eno

If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

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

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

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

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.