Brian Eno Quotes

The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Say
  • Realize

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • World
  • Old
  • Jazz

• When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Women
  • Rock
  • Daily

• I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Ever

• Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Relationship
  • Single
  • Balance

• It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Why
  • Hawaii

• To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Change

• Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Money
  • Me

• I hate birthdays.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hate
  • Birthdays

• I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Nature
  • Culture

• The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

  

  John Muir
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Hand

• Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Heaven
  • Virtue

• I've always been a fan of Korean cinema but never really pursued it, as I wanted to pave my way here in the States. I figured, once I established myself here, Korea might take notice. And it did.

  

  Brian Tee

• The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Nature
  • Virtue
  • Sloppiness