Quotes by Background Music Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically. Beck background-music backgrounds I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually. David Hockney background-music backgrounds hate Jazz is not background music. Horace Silver background-music backgrounds jazz The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life. Jonathan Franzen background-music backgrounds kind