Quotes About Background

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

Do you come from old money, new money, or no money?

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

…and there, in the background, the sky's sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words 'I am' dissolved into blue peace. He said it. 'The ocean.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

The lot—and often indeed the aim—of most professional bourgeois was to vegetate in modest, undemanding, but comfortable circumstances, finding wives of similar background and being succeeded in their office or calling by their children and grandchildren