The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else. -Brian Eno Strength
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. -Brian Eno Technology
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started. -Brian Eno Technology
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. -Brian Eno Chance
I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before. -Brian Eno Technology
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people. -Brian Eno Government
I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's. -Brian Eno Trust
I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me. -Brian Eno Trust
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. -Brian Eno Great
Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to. -Brian Eno Relationship
You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else. -Brian Eno Relationship
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 Good
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. -Brian Eno Technology
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 Humor
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people. -Brian Eno Knowledge
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 Movingon
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better. -Brian Eno Knowledge
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. -Brian Eno Learning
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work. -Brian Eno Computers
