Brian Eno Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
-
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
-
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
-
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
-
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
-
When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
-
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
-
The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
-
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
-
I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
-
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
-
You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
-
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
-
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
-
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
-
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
-
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
-
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
-
Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.
-
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.
-
I want to work, but the balance to find between working and being a mom is challenging.
-
You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.
-
I often work by avoidance.
