Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case w...
BRIAN ENO People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, ther...
BRIAN ENO I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Holl...
BRIAN ENO I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is alway...
BRIAN ENO If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, activ...
BRIAN ENO The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound...
BRIAN ENO I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environm...
BRIAN ENO When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
BRIAN ENO In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambie...
BRIAN ENO People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to sug...
BRIAN ENO When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generate...
BRIAN ENO Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
BRIAN ENO Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the s...
BRIAN ENO I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that eve...
BRIAN ENO The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from...
BRIAN ENO If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many s...
BRIAN ENO When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappe...
BRIAN ENO If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a cert...
BRIAN ENO Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create ...
BRIAN ENO I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intel...
BRIAN ENO The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter...
BRIAN ENO Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't...
BRIAN ENO I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arab...
BRIAN ENO In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art ...
BRIAN ENO I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when...
BRIAN ENO When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he w...
BRIAN ENO I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
BRIAN ENO I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republi...
BRIAN ENO For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
BRIAN ENO For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it sh...
BRIAN ENO Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create sett...
BRIAN ENO At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that ...
BRIAN ENO Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
BRIAN ENO A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
BRIAN ENO I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
BRIAN ENO Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily...
BRIAN ENO I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular a...
BRIAN ENO I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, eit...
BRIAN ENO Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves ...
BRIAN ENO When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only...
BRIAN ENO I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a so...
BRIAN ENO I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular a...
BRIAN ENO Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in t...
BRIAN ENO I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional ...
BRIAN ENO Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes',...
BRIAN ENO I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
BRIAN ENO My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters ...
BRIAN ENO I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the sc...
BRIAN ENO If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at...
BRIAN ENO Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kin...
BRIAN ENO When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the res...
BRIAN ENO Most game music is based on loops effectively.
BRIAN ENO I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, yo...
BRIAN ENO Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. ...
BRIAN ENO The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and lo...
BRIAN ENO If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do t...
BRIAN ENO I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational sys...
BRIAN ENO 'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night w...
BRIAN ENO Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are p...
BRIAN ENO You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion....
BRIAN ENO Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don'...
BRIAN ENO I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of thin...
BRIAN ENO Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.
BRIAN ENO I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
BRIAN ENO The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very imp...
BRIAN ENO We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thou...
BRIAN ENO Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than th...
BRIAN ENO More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
BRIAN ENO The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It's fine to be a pop star. 'Oh,...
BRIAN ENO Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically...
BRIAN ENO I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
BRIAN ENO Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options creat...
BRIAN ENO Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player ...
BRIAN ENO Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signat...
BRIAN ENO If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart ...
BRIAN ENO What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one ...
BRIAN ENO I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until...
BRIAN ENO There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not ...
BRIAN ENO I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they w...
BRIAN ENO One often makes music to supplement one's world.
BRIAN ENO When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off ...
BRIAN ENO When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, sti...
BRIAN ENO Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who jus...
BRIAN ENO By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. ...
BRIAN ENO I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I...
BRIAN ENO It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
BRIAN ENO Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
BRIAN ENO I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of c...
BRIAN ENO Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
BRIAN ENO One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather ...
BRIAN ENO When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness b...
BRIAN ENO Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other ...
BRIAN ENO I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a w...
BRIAN ENO Darwin’s folly was barking up the wrong tree.
BRIAN Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie,
BRIAN A Nationalist is a defeated Republican.
BRIAN The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea...
BRIAN GREENE No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
BRIAN GREENE The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i...
BRIAN GREENE Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t...
BRIAN GREENE How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab...
BRIAN GREENE Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na...
BRIAN GREENE I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
BRIAN GREENE We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ...
BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
BRIAN MAY I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
BRIAN MCKNIGHT The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
BRIAN MAY Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and your...
BRIAN KOSLOW Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or ...
BRIAN GRAZER I get depressed when the sun is clouded over. It affects me.
BRIAN WILDSMITH I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
BRIAN CELIO Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
BRIAN MAY I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE You never know how they're going to play out, but 'Pork and Beans' definitely had the sa...
BRIAN BELL We live in a strange bubble.
BRIAN MOLKO I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to...
BRIAN DENNEHY Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Fac...
BRIAN ACTON The person with the most contacts does not win a prize. Number of friends, likes or fans is only mea...
BRIAN BASILICO Social networking can also have a negative effect on relationships when you only treat people as pot...
BRIAN BASILICO It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into some...
BRIAN TEE I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John...
BRIAN SCHWEITZER German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shud...
BRIAN LUMLEY Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.
BRIAN CELIO It's surprising, but a lot of times we've had really talented running backs so once you get down to ...
BRIAN CARTER Hopefully we'll get a chance to make some plays around the end zone and we can get in there.
BRIAN CARTER It's a fascinating book about what it takes to be a scientist.
BRIAN CARTER It can't compare to Harmon. The lighting is so much better, the footing is better and the surface is...
BRIAN CARTER We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams li...
BRIAN CARTER I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearin...
BRIAN SKERRY I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the...
BRIAN HUSKEY I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.
BRIAN BOSWORTH Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t...
BRIAN WILSON Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
BRIAN TRACY Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...
BRIAN TRACY Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active...
BRIAN TRACY My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
BRIAN PICKRELL I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the ...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've...
BRIAN WILSON Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.
BRIAN FERRY It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at...
BRIAN BAUMGARTNER I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on ...
BRIAN MOLKO I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if yo...
BRIAN GRAZER It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.
BRIAN MCKNIGHT We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
BRIAN COX Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highro...
BRIAN TRACY It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
BRIAN TRACY Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY Coming off that Pennington game, he had a little extra incentive against Hamilton. Taylor was ahead ...
BRIAN CARTER They all stayed together and they have a good chemistry. We saw it coming.
BRIAN CARTER Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
BRIAN TRACY The Future belongs to the competent get good, get better, be the best !
BRIAN TRACY Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
BRIAN TRACY Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ...
BRIAN JACQUES I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.

It is hard to forget,...
BRIAN ANDREAS Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
BRIAN TRACY You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it ...
BRIAN ANDREAS We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the ...
BRIAN ANDREAS As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians i...
BRIAN SELZNICK I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magi...
BRIAN SELZNICK I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred word...
BRIAN ANDREAS If you want to thrive, you need to sow the seeds of self-development.
BRIAN BUFFINI A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants r...
BRIAN HWANG You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
BRIAN TRACY The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a wor...
BRIAN TRACY You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used thr...
BRIAN TRACY There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
BRIAN HAYS If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.
BRIAN HAYS It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...
BRIAN FRIEL The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and ...
BRIAN TRACY The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
BRIAN HWANG There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo...
BRIAN MOORE I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active....
BRIAN TRACY When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum,...
BRIAN TRACY Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing...
BRIAN TRACY Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out ...
BRIAN TRACY Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
BRIAN TRACY To punish drug takers is like a drunk striking the bleary face it sees in the mirror. Drugs will not...
BRIAN INGLIS Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better tha...
BRIAN TRACY Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
BRIAN TRACY Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
BRIAN TRACY We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
BRIAN TRACY No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be success...
BRIAN TRACY Successful people are simply those with success habits.
BRIAN TRACY Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you ...
BRIAN TRACY Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
BRIAN MASTERS