Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically. — Beck Copy Share Image
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
Singer-songwriters should be playing songs that aren't background music. — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
“Ambient music” is the term used today for “atmospheric” background music usually intended for relaxation or meditation.” — Merriam-Webster Copy Share Image
How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
“If life had background music playing your song, I've got to be honest I try to escape you but the orchestra plays… — Anberlin Copy Share Image
The modern notion of background music is a loud thump, thump, thump. It isn't only conversation it kills but also concentration. — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
“There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A… — Missy Lyons Copy Share Image
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
“Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II is an album that readily serves as background music to its own telling.” — Marc Weidenbaum Copy Share Image
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
You know, I started in movies a long time ago, and once in awhile I'm taken aback. Sometimes one of my things… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
“Here I was with the guy I maybe-loved, relaxing by the ocean with salty crisp breezes and blue-gray sea curving into a… — Linda Joy Singleton Copy Share Image
It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
“and dozens of tips for theme decorating, table settings, background music, and more. Whatever the occasion, we have the plan. Choose from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.” — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The problem with reality is that there's no background music, so you never really know whether something mysterious, evil or adventurous is… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
