Ambiance Quotes

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

If I host something, even if it's just dinner at my house, I like the event to move. So that means cocktails in the family room, and then moving outside and having appetizers on the patio, and then moving to dinner at the dining table. It's just the idea of the event being curated to every little detail.

If you look at any film fest, the setting gives it colour. Be it Goa, Cannes or even Berlin in the winter, the setting makes these festivals special and gives it a definition.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

Once I was hosting an important dinner party at our house - everything was perfect, candles were lit, the house smelled amazing with great food and drinks ready. We lit a fire and the flue wasn't able to open, unbeknownst to us. We smoked out the entire house and the fire department had to come - it was a mess.

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

I'm very happy with how Jaleo in Las Vegas came together.

I like things on my desk that are pretty and make a statement. It's important that whatever is on my desk inspires me because that's where I spend a lot of my time working and creating things.

I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

No matter how beautiful a spot I find myself in, if the food ain't up to much, I won't enjoy myself.

Hospitality is about trying to support multiple functions in one space.

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

Lovely place, shame about the people!

I see candles as varied things. They give a warm glow, and fire purifies.

Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

Life is all about seating and lighting.