I think the idea that people walk around to music is very interesting. They are actually creating the soundtrack to their lives as they walk around to it.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.