Ambient Music Quotes

If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction. ~ F. Paul Wilson

It seemed as if Muzak had sucked the soul out of the songs, but in fact they had created something entirely new, something close to what Satie imagined: furniture music, music that was clearly a useful and (to their subscribers) functional part of the environment, there to induce calm and tranquility in their shops and offices. Why is it that Satie's compositions, Brian Eno's ambient music, or the minimal spaced-out ~ David Byrne

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting. ~ Brian Eno

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. ~ Brian Eno

There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative. ~ Missy Mazzoli

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. ~ 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

If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic dimensions like electronic ambient music, it's pushes all of that colour to the foreground so you hear little every atom of sound. ~ Max Richter

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music ... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto. ~ Robbie Robertson

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time. ~ Kiri Te Kanawa

I love a boy with sun-kissed hair,
With ocean storms in his bright blue eyes,
I love a boy who drinks my tears when I cry. ~ Petra March

Life is simple. Live it with vigor and zest. ~ Melvin Wakeley

Most of my music videos were made for under $200. ~ Grimes

You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you. ~ Julian B. Barbour

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. ~ Satyajit Ray

While there are certainly informational spillovers as ideas move from person to person, it is hard to see why in most instances they are not priced. Although it is possible to imagine examples such as the wheelbarrow where an idea cannot be used without revealing the secret, relatively few ideas are of this type. For copyrightable creations such as books, music, plays, movies and art, unpriced spillovers obviously play little role. A book, a CD or a work of art must be purchased before it can be used, and the creator is free to make use of his creation in the privacy of his home without revealing the secret to the public at large. Similarly with movies or plays. In all cases, the creation must effectively be purchased before the "secret" is revealed. ~ Michele Boldrin

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience. ~ Sir Arthur Sullivan

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music. ~ John Oates

When you expect anything from music, you expect too much. ~ Josh Homme

Of all the religions in the world, there is none with the wealth of music that the Christian faith offers. ~ Ravi Zacharias

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me. ~ Nancy Sinatra

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ~ Samuel George Morton

For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way. ~ Wyclef Jean

And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose. ~ Plato

I think one of the reasons it ended was that his eyes never lit up for me the way they did for classical music. I realize that in the long run I may not be as wonderful as a Brahms symphony but I think I'm good for a Haydn quintet. ~ Daniel Handler

Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though. ~ Brett Dennen

He felt her there beside him, just as she had always been on evenings like this when he had called for music, and when her touch on her instrument, or her least word to him, had been so much her own; except that he would have preferred even to this vivid dream her simple reality in the dark. ~ Murasaki Shikibu

The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing. ~ Charles Manson

For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home. ~ Merzbow

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. ~ Carson McCullers

People don't realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart." J. Krishnamurti. "The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices. ~ Deepak Chopra

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music. ~ Mandy Patinkin

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate. ~ Joy Harjo

Morals are an acquirement, like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis, no man is born with them. ~ Mark Twain

That everything you want to happen, will happen, if you decide you want it enough. That every time you think a sad thought, you can think a happy one instead.
That you control that completely.
That the people who make you laugh are more beautiful than beautiful people. That you laugh more than you cry. That crying is good for you. That the people you hate wish you would stop and you do too.
That your friends are reflections of the best parts of you. That you are more than the sum total of the things you know and how you react to them. That dancing is sometimes more important than listening to the music.
That the most embarrassing, awkward moments of your life are only remembered by you and no one else ~ Iain S. Thomas

In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before they made a lot of other things, including tools. ~ Amanda Palmer

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! ~ Christian Scott

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way. ~ Steven Rinella