486 Quotes by Brian Eno

When people censor themselves they’re just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities – this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don’t yet sense.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

I’m always interested in something when it isn’t familiar to me.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it.

Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, “Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.” Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.