Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

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

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

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.

Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

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.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

Music is always on. Not at work. But at home, everything always has to have a soundtrack.

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

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

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.

There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?'

When you have live music in the background, people are usually talking over it. You don't actually get to listen to live music in your space all the time.

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.

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.

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

I try to pick music for a diner that doesnt involve a lot of lyrics, so you're not paying attention to that. As long as it doesnt dominate the party, it should be more atmosphere music. When I'm by myself, I never play music.

I need music while taking a bath. I need it in the car.