Brian Eno World Quotations

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

If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

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.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

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

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.