Ambient Sound Quotes

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.

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

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 don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.

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

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?'

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.

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.

You know how Bed Bath & Beyond sells those white noise machines that help you sleep? And they usually make ocean noises? I want one that's just David Gergen gently muttering about the economy.

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see what effect it has, without any aforethought.

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

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

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

I want to remind people that there is no soundtrack in 'Southland;' there is no scored music or soundtrack telling you what you're supposed to feel.

If you use music boldly at the front of a scene, it creates another level.

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

I'm a fan of FKA Twigs, The Weeknd. I love that kind of ambient R&B. I feel like it's just another soldier in the war to blur the lines and make things to where it's good music and bad music.