Quotes About Elevator Music

#1. We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.

John Eldredge

#2. Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song "Stayin' Alive." A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom pants and a slinky silk shirt.

Rick Riordan

#3. So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

Michael Stipe

#4. The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.

Jean Wilson

#5. Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#6. I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

Emmanuelle Beart

#7. As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Joseph Stowell

#8. A fisherman is always hopeful
nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#9. Together we made our way down to the street level. Neither of us said a word. The music was awful
Neil Diamond or something. I should've made that part of my gift form the gods: better elevator tunes.

Rick Riordan

#10. Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on an elevator or in my car listening to absolutely nothing. I'll just be driving and then the lyrics birth.

Brooke Valentine

#11. I like rules that are broken.

Shelby Lynne

#12. To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

Alexander Pope

#13. When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Stan Kenton

#14. Love has no charm
when Love is swept to earth:
you'd make a lop-winged god,
frozen and contrite,
of god up-darting,
winged for passionate flight.

Hilda Doolittle

#15. I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

Charles Kuralt

#16. Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are such sexual songs that you put them on & the strippers go NUTS!

Joe Perry

#17. When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

Roger Federer

#18. I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

Victor Borge

#19. To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

James Schuyler

#20. Do not beg for what does not want to stay.

Rupi Kaur

#21. I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

Theresa May

#22. The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

James Stephens

#23. They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape.

Rick Riordan

#24. The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.

Derrick May

#25. Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.

LZ Granderson

#26. It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Bill Gross