Quotes About Background

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

My parents weren't actors or studio executives.

Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.

The greatest thing about the Wiggles, and how they started, was they had that great background of early childhood development and that's what they were studying at the university at the time.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.

Whether it's Kendrick Lamar or J. Cole or Common there are a lot of artists, especially rappers, who come from a background with a faith-based substance, and it's time for that substance to be celebrated and appreciated.

I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.

Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition can be entirely identified with particular beings. It consists of acts and attitudes that are barbarian or civilized, not individuals or peoples.

My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.

I am reminded how households with only two people have a different kind of gravity than others. We need the background noise, because otherwise the burden is entirely on us.

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

I never wanted to become an actress. I come from an air force background.

A background person is all I've been all my life.

Too many artists appear to forget where they came from.