#music

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. ↗

— Brian Eno

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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. ↗

— Brian Eno

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There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. ↗

— Brian Eno

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You can't really imagine music without technology. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. ↗

— Enya

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The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was. ↗

— Enya

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When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. ↗

— Enya

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Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from. ↗

— Enya

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The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that. ↗

— Mike Figgis

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When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer. ↗

— Mike Figgis

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