“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 biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.”
― Brian Eno
“I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.”
― Brian Eno
"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences."
― Brian Eno
"Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason."
― Brian Eno
"If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great."
― Brian Eno
"Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach."
― Brian Eno
"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."
― Brian Eno
"The computer brings out the worst in some people."
― Brian Eno
"It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality."
― Brian Eno
"Everybody is entertained to death."
― Brian Eno
"I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music."
― Brian Eno
"Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours."
― Brian Eno
"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