Quotes by Brian Eno

"I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender."

"I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there."

"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."

"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."

"I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene."

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

"When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output."

"Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised."

"If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche."