My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

— Brian Eno

Brian Eno Quotes

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

— Brian Eno

As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.

— Brian Eno

I’ve never used a PC in my life; I don’t like them.

— Brian Eno

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

— Brian Eno

Repetition doesn’t really exist.

— Brian Eno

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

— Brian Eno

My shows are not narratives.

— Brian Eno

I want to rethink ‘surrender’ as an active verb.

— Brian Eno

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

— Brian Eno

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

— Brian Eno

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

— Brian Eno

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

— Brian Eno

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

— Brian Eno

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

— Brian Eno

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

— Brian Eno

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

— Brian Eno

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them – and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

— Brian Eno

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.

— Brian Eno

Stop thinking about art works as objects and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. What makes a work of art good for you is not something that s already inside it but something that happens inside you.

— Brian Eno

Regard your limitations as secret strengths. Or as constraints that you can make use of.

— Brian Eno
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