Muzak Quotes

#1. In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.
It's my box. Put what you want in yours.

Joan Oliver Goldsmith

#2. Some easy-listening Muzak came onto the phone. I held it away from my ear. If you listened close for long, it gave you cavities.

Robert B. Parker

#3. A band played live Muzak.

Don DeLillo

#4. Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

Will Self

#5. Sometimes you have to stop something to really measure the passion that you have, and either you feel like moving, or you don't, and then maybe it's time to stop.

David Belle

#6. Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

Daniel Barenboim

#7. Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

Margaret Heffernan

#8. I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Lily Tomlin

#9. Thank You. Life is short and TBR lists are long. I know time is precious and I thank you for spending yours with this book.

Katja Millay

#10. Dream your sacred dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

Katy Butler

#12. The elevator turned out to be slower than the damned train at Disney World. And it played "The Girl from Ipanema" in Muzak. I looked at Paris and saw that he was mouthing the lyrics. That was it. I'd have to plan an intervention for him once we got home.

Leslie Langtry

#13. A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.

David Mitchell

#14. He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor school. Her eyes were fouled with smog and propane spray.

Robert Stone

#15. Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

Holly Near

#16. Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

Etta James

#17. There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.

Caroline Knapp

#18. One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken

Tommy Cotton

#19. You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war makes wanting things like that unimportant."
Mor was quiet for a heartbeat. "Perhaps. But you should not let war steal it from you regardless.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. When the three of them stepped inside, they were greeted by the Muzak version of "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance. Vlad and Henry exchanged looks of horror, and Vlad sighed. "Is nothing sacred?

Heather Brewer

#21. Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

Zoe Akins