I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me. Brian Eno More Quotes by Brian Eno More Quotes From Brian Eno Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations. Brian Eno telephones objects conversation Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism. Brian Eno admirer conservatism force 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. Brian Eno lying art interesting I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another. Brian Eno sex art thinking Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire. Brian Eno quality inspire people One way of working is just bring a group of totally different musicians together and encourage them to stick to their guns, not to do the thing that normally happens in a working situation where everyone homogenizes and concedes certain points - so eventually they're all playing in roughly the same style. I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away. So there would be a kind of space in the middle where I could operate, and attempt to make these things coalesce in some way. In fact quite a lot of my stuff has arisen from that. Brian Eno style gun together It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene. Brian Eno scene matter travel Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else. Brian Eno ashamed musician ideas Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results Brian Eno results roles littles My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. Brian Eno peculiar process writing Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. Brian Eno film earth editing 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 talent trying people In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it Brian Eno planes crash art Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better. Brian Eno development humans feelings You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre. Brian Eno arrows target eye I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. Brian Eno czech-republic country people Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours. Brian Eno mind trying people I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. Brian Eno records historical kind Cooking is a way of listening to the radio. Brian Eno radio cooking listening American television really is pathetic. Brian Eno american-television pathetic television
