Easy Listening Quotes

When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not.

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.

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band… easy to listen to.

I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.

I love pop music. It's just fun, and it feels good, and it's easy.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

With guitar riffs, we always look for something that 's a little bit special. We've always found that it is harder to come up with something that's nice and simple without getting something that's hard but easy.

It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind it.

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.

Pops, he was a singer's singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He just was so laid-back and cool. I always wished I could sing like Pops.

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.

With pop, it's pretty much straight up and down. It has to be simple. Everybody has to be able to walk down the street and be able to sing it.

Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper, without focusing on the potential negatives, not least of which is that idiots can more easily listen to your favourite music.

Annabeth’s shoulders ached. The elevator’s easy-listening music didn’t help. If all monsters had to hear that song about liking piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, no wonder they were in the mood for carnage when they reached the mortal world.

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

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

Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."

Mantovani was a great influence on me.