I Think, Therefore I Ambient

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

— Brian Eno

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It…

— Lupe Fiasco

“AMBIENT FEAR: background anxiety of everyday life”

— Jon Winokur

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

— Andy Summers

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects…

— Erik Larson

It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of…

— Jerry Fodor

It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . .…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Reducing ambient environmental radiation to the lowest levels possible would be prudent during the global COVID-19 pandemic.”

— Steven Magee

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

— Grimes

“First love is all sensation and ambient zooms, and letting the world ebb.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

— Brian Eno

I like listening to ambient music, especially in very scenic places because I think it allows for the most freedom of thought.

— Caroline Polachek

Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just…

— Bill Laswell

I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like…

— James Purefoy

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

— Theophilus London