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“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
― Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices

“Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.”
― Brian Eno

“Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.”
― Brian Eno

“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”
― Brian Eno

“More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.”
― Brian Eno

“You talk to me as if from a distance And I reply with impressions chosen from another time.”
― Brian Eno

“Stop thinking about art works as objects and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. What makes a work of art good for you is not something that s already inside it but something that happens inside you.”
― Brian Eno

“Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.”
― Brian Eno

“Honour thy error as a hidden intention.”
― Brian Eno

“My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.”
― Brian Eno

“I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate â€� history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it.”
― Brian Eno

“If we are ever going to achieve a rational approach to organizing our affairs, we have to dignify the process of admitting to being wrong. It doesn't help matters at all if the media, or your friends, accuse you of "flip-flopping" when you change your mind. Changing our minds is our hope for the future.”
― Brian Eno, What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything

“You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody busâ€� then crash it!”
― Brian Eno

“The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.”
― Brian Eno

“I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.”
― Brian Eno

“Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.”
― Brian Eno

“I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.”
― Brian Eno

“I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.”
― Brian Eno

“Regard your limitations as secret strengths. Or as constraints that you can make use of.”
― Brian Eno

“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting”
― Brian Eno

“American television really is pathetic.”
― Brian Eno

“Yesterday, before the meeting with U2, I took the precaution of putting tiny sections of each of the 44 pieces of music we have in hand on to a single tape. All this means is that when somebody says ‘Drum Loop 14â€� and someone else says ‘Which one was that?â€� I can readily go to it without having to change tapes (which takes only a few more seconds but is annoying). This little precaution (which however took me nearly three hours to put together beforehand) expedited the whole thing so much, and changed the whole quality of the decisions being made. I tend to spend more and more of my time thinking how to set up situations so that they work â€� so that they can actually take less and less time. My ideal is probably based on that story I heard years ago of how the Japanese calligraphers used to work â€� a whole day spent grinding inks and preparing brushes and paper, and then, as the sun begins to go down, a single burst of fast and inspired action.”
― Brian Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary

“Records made ‘at one sittingâ€� sound so fresh now â€� because the rate of discovery and the emotional tempo match those of the listener. What’s infuriating, though, is how fragile those fabrics are. I’ve noticed that, trying to work on improvisations that have ‘somethingâ€�, they very quickly dissolve into nothing the more attention they get. It’s almost like trying to reconstruct a very funny dinner party â€� you had to be there, and it’s impossible to isolate the chemistry of what really made it work.”
― Brian Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary

“On the end of an era

"I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate â€� history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it.”
― Brian Eno

“Tommy Cooper finds a painting and a violin in the attic; takes them to an expert who says, ‘You’ve got a Stradivarius and a Rembrandt. Unfortunately Stradivarius was a terrible painter and Rembrandt made awful violins.”
― Brian Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary

“Questions for U2: ‘What record would you like to make â€� i.e. how would you like this to be read? How would you like to get there? Does it bother you if the result is ‘undemocraticâ€�? How much cheating is allowed? How much me?â€� Lincoln’s axe: ‘This is Lincoln’s original axe. The head has been replaced three times and the handle twice.”
― Brian Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary

“Art is a simulator.”
― Brian Eno, What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory