At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

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

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

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.