Brian Eno Quotes

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

I always want to remain inspired.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

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.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.

I just want to do cool stuff.

Working with someone who's really passionate about it is great, because you become passionate, and then it's fun; it's not work anymore.

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.

The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life changing difference. True or true? Yes or yes? I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. In imagination, there's no limitation. Don't think it, ink it.

I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me." It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.