Quotes by Brian Eno

“I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.”

“I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.”

“You can't really imagine music without technology.”

“I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobo...”

“You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.”

“Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like an...”

“It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.”

“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 'ambie...”

“Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the fu...”

“Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.”

“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 know...”

“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 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...”

“I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins Like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.”

“When you see people like Ken Loach, David Miller, Jackie Walker, when you see those people being accused of antisemitism, you cannot help but say this is all made up.”

“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist...”

“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.”

“The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.”

“Ideas worth questioning: Being an artist is a job for life.”