Brian Eno Quotes
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A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.
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I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
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As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
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The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
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I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins Like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.
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It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.