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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.
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People Do Dismiss Ambient Music, Don't They?

Brian Eno
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.
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In england and europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
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Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. all music has that in it- a space or center. i think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. there's an ambient quality in every sound. you may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.
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I love jazz. so to me, there are two main types of jazz. there's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. listening jazz is like thelonius monk or john coltrane, where it's a listening experience. so that's what i like; i like to make stuff that you listen to. it's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. that's why you sit and listen to jazz. you dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. i think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.
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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. you can call it compassionate listening. you listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.
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Do not be critics, you people, i beg you. i was a critic and i wish i could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. it is a f@*$%load of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but christ, that is what matters. what matters is saying yes.
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Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. i don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but i'm sure there's some connection. but in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. i think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.
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