Amy Sedaris Quotes

'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly.

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.

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.

Instrumental music can be about anything. It's about a mood, and I usually title my instrumental songs long after they're written. Sometimes I figure out the titles when I'm doing the CD package, and that's very common for a lot of people who write instrumental music.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.

There's been someone up here screaming 'Landslide' for the whole show... Normally we don't play 'Landslide,' but on occasion we've been known to play it... So since this person's been screaming it all show long... That just about kills the chances of me playing it tonight, or ever again.

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.

It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.

Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

As long as I'm having fun I'm going to play.