I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Quote by Brian Eno
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
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Brian Eno Quotes
- I take sounds and change them into words.
- 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.
- It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
- 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 our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
- Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
- Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
- You can't really imagine music without technology.
- Most game music is based on loops effectively.
- I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
Best Quotes
- There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
- There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
- Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
- Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
- I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!
- Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
- The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
- Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.