Able Quote by Brian Eno

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

— Brian Eno

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

— Brian Eno

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

— Brian Eno

“Ubiquitous listening makes music virtually imperceptible, and any music is welcome. For so long as the semblance of vital activity that a music expresses…

— Eldritch Priest

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 music” is the term used today for “atmospheric” background music usually intended for relaxation or meditation.”

— Merriam-Webster

Ambient music is my favorite art form because there's no interface. It just commands you how to feel. There's no suggestion of lyrics or…

— Matty Healy

Nowadays music just exploits the human nature, because people no longer see it as expressing their inner-most feelings but fuelling the listeners ego

— Juru Samuels

My concern with this approach is that music becomes a substance devoid of people. It's a consumer model of what music is: subjects listening…

— Vijay Iyer

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

— Beck

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved…

— Bear McCreary

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate…

— Kurt Elling