Brian Eno Quotes

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

Just go out and do things, and those things that continue to spark an interest, do more of.

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

If I can find something that I haven't done before, then that is an immediate...it peaks my interest.

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

You're curious about someone, or why they're doing what they're doing. Because everyone who gets to work in this field is so lucky, and it's such a rarified world, I understand that. At the end of the day, I'm interested in demystifying it.

I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

I've gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too f**king curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all.