black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Brian Eno

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
BRIAN ENO

Evolve Ideas Programme
Think inside the work – outside the work
BRIAN ENO

Inside Thinking Work
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
BRIAN ENO

Peculiar Process Writing
I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‘I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.’
BRIAN ENO

Looks Past Thinking
Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.
BRIAN ENO

Amplify Details Looks
It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
BRIAN ENO

Nice People Thinking
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
BRIAN ENO

Categories Sometimes Term
All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
BRIAN ENO

Best Minutes Written
I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
BRIAN ENO

Free Jazz Musical Want
Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
BRIAN ENO

Admirer Conservatism Force
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
BRIAN ENO

Easily Forgotten Important
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
BRIAN ENO

Interesting Manipulate World
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
BRIAN ENO

Brother Distance Philosophical
I believe in singing.
BRIAN ENO

Believe Happen Life Magic Singing
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
BRIAN ENO

Art Calling Philosophy
It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
BRIAN ENO

Attention Done Forget

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brian Eno Quotes