Brian Eno
composer, writer, painter, record producer, songwriter, singer, photographer, musician, video artist, conceptual artist
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All Quotes by Brian Eno
“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”
“If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.”
“I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.”
“I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.”
“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.”
“I, I wish you could swim Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.”
“Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.”
“If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result.”
“Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."”
“The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.”
“Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.”
“Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.”
“As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.”
“Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable [sic] as it is interesting.”
“At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."”
“When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'”
“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”
“Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.”