Brian Eno

Quotes by Brian Eno

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Musician · British · 1948

British musician (born 1948)

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“The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.”
— Brian Eno

“Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.”
— Brian Eno

“My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing’, which is an inverse process – where you leave out an assumption that everybody has alway...”
— Brian Eno

“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.”
— Brian Eno

“As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.”
— Brian Eno

“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.”
— Brian Eno

“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.”
— Brian Eno