Brian Eno Quotes

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!