Quote

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Brian Eno

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Brian Eno
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 15
Composer
Musician
Painter
Photographer
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Writer
Borough of Melton
Eno
Brian Peter George Eno
Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno
Someone
Feel
Feels
Something
Make
Surrender
Listening
Emotion

More quotes by Brian Eno

Image
If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.
Brian Eno
Image
As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.
Brian Eno
Image
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
Brian Eno
Image
You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
Brian Eno
Image
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
Brian Eno
Image
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
Brian Eno
Image
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
Brian Eno
Image
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
Brian Eno
Image
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
Brian Eno
Image
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
Brian Eno
Image
Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
Brian Eno
Image
If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
Brian Eno
Image
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Brian Eno
Image
I believe in singing.
Brian Eno
Image
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Brian Eno
Image
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
Brian Eno
Image
Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.
Brian Eno
Image
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
Brian Eno
Image
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.
Brian Eno
Image
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
Brian Eno