The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my…

I wanted to get rich, like anyone from my background.

— John Cooper Clarke

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit…

— Peter Baynham

“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

“« I guess I tend to think that important events should be solemn, and very grand, with muted violins playing in the background. It´s…

— Anonymous

“He never really voice pure, raw outrage to me about Watergate or what it represented. The crimes and abuses were background music. Nixon was…

— Bob Woodward

“They were looking for a builder to construct the home they thought they wanted, but he was the architect, coming with a new plan…

— N.T. Wright

“My eyes pop out when I catch a glimpse of how much leg she's showing. She's wearing her shortest mini skirt, the one that…

— Janine Caldwell

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

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

— Anonymous

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

“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

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

“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