''Play a vibration in the rhythm of the Universe, Play a vibration in the rhythm of dreaming.''
- Stockhausen

''Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.''
- Brian Eno

"Make it the waves of the ocean. Make the music sound like beautiful wind ans like the song chanting through time. And cosmic."
- David Lynch instructions do Angelo Badalamenti "Twin Peaks" ambient sound track writer

''an aural background imperceptibly changing the environmental ambience''
- Brian Eno

"The appeal of ambient is it's oceanic sense of boundlessness, the sensation of thoughts, atmospheres and environments lapping and overlapping like washes of colour.
- David Toop

''Music to feed your head, music for your mind, music for tripping, music for relaxing, breathing, bathing, sleeping or meditating. Multi-purpose chilled out journey music or psycho-acoustic space creating cymatic sonics.''
- Jason James

"designed to induce calm and space to think".
- Brian Eno