486 Quotes by Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

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

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.