Brian Eno Quotes

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

I think the United States is way behind the times.

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

I was seen as a traitor for marrying a Muslim - a Pakistani at that.

I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.

How is it possible that in just the last ten years all of these things which were taboo throughout our culture, throughout the culture, things that were taboo are now not only normal but celebrated, and people who were not really supportive of them are called kooks and the new weirdos?

I think it's true about people now being closer to their parents, since the '60s, really. The parents are no longer from a different planet, the 1950s ideas of American family. We could be friends with our parents. After the '60s, it wasn't like a person smoking pot was what the parents would be appalled at.

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.

If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Humans cannot find freedom until they let go of old obsolete ideas.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.