People do dismiss ambient music, dont they? They call it easy listening, as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. – Brian Eno

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice. – Brian Eno

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. – Brian Eno