Quote

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to 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
Actually
Religion
Giving
Evangelical
Something
Recognise
People
Surrender
Atheist
Gives
Chance

More quotes by Brian Eno

Image
One often makes music to supplement one's world.
Brian Eno
Image
One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing
Brian Eno
Image
With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
Brian Eno
Image
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
Brian Eno
Image
It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, Who's the bass player? Who did that? Who's the engineer on this?
Brian Eno
Image
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
Brian Eno
Image
Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
Brian Eno
Image
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
Brian Eno
Image
You can't really imagine music without technology.
Brian Eno
Image
I take sounds and change them into words.
Brian Eno
Image
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
Brian Eno
Image
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
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
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
Brian Eno
Image
I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.
Brian Eno
Image
You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.
Brian Eno
Image
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
Brian Eno
Image
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
Brian Eno
Image
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
Brian Eno
Image
The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
Brian Eno