486 Quotes by Brian Eno

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you’re hearing. I don’t use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that’s a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable.