Top 197 Quotes by Brian Eno

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Law is always better than war.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I often work by avoidance.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.