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

“If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result.”

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

“Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”

“My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing’, which is an inverse process – where you leave out an assumption that everybody has always made and see what happens . In that version of this process, you discover a value in the absence of something ­– in fact you discover that the absence of something is the revelation of something else .”

“The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.”

“Paul Morley interviews Eno in The Guardian”