Brian Eno Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

  Brian Eno

  Telephones, Conversation, Objects

  "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

• Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

  Brian Eno

  Jobs, Technology, Thinking

  Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 1996.

• You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Together, Sound

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

• Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

  Brian Eno

  Identity, Notable, Interaction

• I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.

  Brian Eno

  Yoga, Wrestling, Ideas

• Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

  Brian Eno

  People, Inspire, Quality

• The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

  Brian Eno

  Becoming, Ideology, Showbiz

  "A Year With Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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