Brian Eno Quotes

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally.

If forced to choose my favourite film, I would have to say 'Raging Bull' because it was the first feature film I worked on, and it was like having pure gold in my hands. But my husband's film 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' is equally a favourite because of its enormous emotional power.

Sometimes I think that we are living in a simulation controlled by the reigns of a destructive child who often gets bored or distracted, leaving us trapped inside feedback loops for years at a time.

For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.

Every cancer is different. The symptoms and treatments are different, and every human body deals with it differently. There are no formulas to it. That, I think, was the biggest takeaway for me.

You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is.

I remember specifically a couple of performances that I saw when I was young - River Phoenix in 'Stand by Me' and also Michael Jackson, in particular his ability to command such power and love while maintaining such deep vulnerability. It really moved my soul from a very young age.

Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles.

How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.