486 Quotes by Brian Eno

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

Don’t be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

Given the chance, i’ll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season’s over.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Culture is everything you don’t have to do.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn’t include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, “Who’s the bass player?” “Who did that?” “Who’s the engineer on this?”

You can’t really imagine music without technology.