Brian Eno Quotes

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Coincidence is logical.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

Out of bad motives good things often come.

Though direction was always on my mind, scripting was accidental.

Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'