486 Quotes by Brian Eno

It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

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.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

When I’ve finally got the title, I think, “Okay, yes, now I know where we are. Now I know what it is. Fine, that must be finished or nearly finished.”

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

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.

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’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.