Brian Eno Quotes

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

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• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Moving
  • Look
  • September

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Care

• I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Myself
  • Green

• In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Lost
  • Government
  • Problem

• No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Never
  • Matter
  • Grass

• I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Believe
  • You
  • Intentions

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Men
  • Man
  • Genius

• Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Like
  • Become

• If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Islamic
  • Terrorism

• Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • You
  • Ego
  • Impact

• I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Father
  • Growing

• If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Together
  • Today
  • Tears

• It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Long
  • Want
  • Legacy

• I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Men
  • Want
  • Player

• When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

  

  Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Attention

• A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Company
  • Customers
  • Workers

• I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Past
  • Simple

• Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Words
  • Anger
  • Bosoms

• The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Attention
  • Lyric