Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in…

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it.…

— Horace Silver

Jazz is not background music.

— Horace Silver

I took a break from doing music to concentrate on acting.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

— Rickie Lee Jones

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew…

— John Tesh

One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being…

— Aaron Sorkin

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

— Annie Proulx

The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel,…

— Herbert Marcuse

First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became…

— Tom Robbins

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the…

— Megan McCafferty

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.…

— Billy Taylor

When I'm not doing readings, I just spend a lot of time alone and try to meditate. Going for walks in nature is also…

— Tyler Henry

“The trouble with life is that, unlike movies, it doesn't have background music. We never know how we're supposed to feel.”

— Lewis Gardner

I don't just sing the song, I also sing the background music and the guitar solo.

— Anonymous

“And the way I loved her was like nothing else. This, I decided, was the love all other loves were measured against. They say…

— Katherine Center