Brian Eno Quotes

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me.

It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.

Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.

My brain is just always going and going and going.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.

My thoughts are ridiculously loud and fast.

Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

The more mind is filled with chattering, more sex has appeal.

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.

We'll keep you in our thoughts With the other bullshit in your heads? No, keep me out of your thoughts, because I hear some of the stuff you talk about and if that's close to what you're thinking about, I don't want to be around that, so keep me and my family out of your thoughts, unless you're thinking of making me a sandwich.

People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.

What are you thinking? Nothing. I mean...a lot of things. Kind of all at once.

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

Years ago, in order to stay sane, I had to really make an effort not to think about how people view us. There's just so much noise, positive and negative, and not much good comes out of thinking about it.

I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.