486 Quotes by Brian Eno

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

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

Also something that you don’t have to listen to from beginning to end – you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

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

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

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I’m very opinionated.