Live Quote by Hilary Hahn

It's about how you're using the space. That's what makes live music.

— Du Yun

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

— Celine Dion

Music is made to be listened to, so you immediately have an issue where you're playing it in the background like wallpaper. Music doesn't…

— Julian Treasure

There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to…

— Tim Hecker

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way…

— David Lynch

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

— David Hockney

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

— LL Cool J

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost…

— Wes Borland

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience…

— Henry Rollins

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way…

— John Petrucci

The modern notion of background music is a loud thump, thump, thump. It isn't only conversation it kills but also concentration.

— Ann Widdecombe

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

— Victoria Legrand