Brian Eno Ideas Quotations

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.