Background Noise 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.

Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.

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

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.

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

In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.

Sometimes supporting is difficult because a lot of people go to a gig to see the main act and to have a beer and a chat with their mates, so a lot of the time, even if you were John Lennon, would not listen to you.

I'm a big fan of music. I need to be listening to music most of the time during the day.

I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take time, to listen, to work together, to listen to other people, and to use your brain. That's why classical music doesn't work when you throw it at people in a subway platform while they're rushing to work. Classical music is something that needs to be contemplated, you have to be completely present with an active mind that's working. It's not background music.

Jazz is not background music.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

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

I fall asleep to a movie every night! I don't have a go-to movie, but I like Netflix or whatever I can find. Usually, it's just noise in the background; I think it's damage from living in New York, where it's so noisy.

I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

Speech recognition today doesn't really work in noisy environments.

For me, the Internet's like music. I don't like working without it. I will tune it out for hours at a time, as I get lost in the work, but I'd know if it wasn't there. If that makes sense.