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The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life. -- Jonathan Franzen
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days. -- Satyajit Ray
Jazz is not background music. -- Horace Silver
Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul. -- Andrew Sean Greer
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. -- Annie Proulx
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. -- Horace Silver
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen. -- Anthony Hopkins
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually. -- David Hockney
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. -- Brian Eno
The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition! -- Eugene Cernan
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play. -- Aaron Sorkin
First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life. -- Tom Robbins
You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song. -- Wes Anderson
How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think. -- Eddie Murphy
One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed. -- Aaron Sorkin
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can. -- Dave Grohl
The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens! -- Abhishek Bachchan
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. -- Eddie Vedder
It's typical for video customers to often use licensed music - whether a soundtrack, background music, or sound effects - to complement their video projects. -- Jon Oringer
The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition! -- Eugene Cernan
Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically. -- Beck
Odd that I couldn't catch any of your dream," Bones went on. "Normally your dreams are like background music to me. -- Jeaniene Frost
Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable. -- David Bowie
He [Chris Martin] can't have background music on. It has to be 100"?percent of his attention. But if he isn't at home, I turn on the hip-hop. I'm like a bad mutha rapping along to every word as I cook. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?' -- Peter Baynham
Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better. -- David Nicholls
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background. -- Coco Lee
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. -- Adam Jones
I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background. -- Gretchen Rubin
My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship. -- Ravi Shankar
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. -- Janel Parrish
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background. -- Jon Secada
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds. -- Ennio Morricone
I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up. -- Grace Jones
The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music. -- Mac Miller
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. -- Dave Davies
Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music. -- Zarin Mehta
I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music. -- Miranda Lambert
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together. -- Laura Mvula
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. -- Neil Diamond
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.' -- Ben Nicholas
I started out coming from more of a concert music background. It just turns out that 20th-century music techniques lend themselves to scary movies and horror movies. -- Marco Beltrami
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds." -- Ennio Morricone
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background. -- Blixa Bargeld
the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon. -- Joyce Carol Oates
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind. -- William James
For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen. -- Garth Greenwell
The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music. -- Meredith Brooks
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music. -- Ben Nicholas
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby. -- Chet Faker
Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like. -- Haruki Murakami
I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do. -- Maynard James Keenan
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop. -- Kid Rock
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. -- Stephen Sondheim

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