# Ambience

Ambience, also spelled Ambiance means the character and atmosphere of a place, the mood, special quality, situation, etc.; environment; and milieu.

## Quotes

* The song's verse [Petronio Alavrez’s Composition] refers to the smiling friendliness, musicality and carino ternura (y) ambiente de sabrosura (sweetness, tenderness, and delicious ambience) of port residents.
** Petronio Alavrez, In The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves and Popular Culture in ..., p. 168
* I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
** Kate Atkinson, in Behind the scenes with Kate Atkinson
* And if I laugh at any mortal]] thing, 'Tis that I may not weep," suggests that the comic sense is parasitical upon the tragic. In order to avoid our tragic encounters with the transitoriness of passing fact, the fading of beauty, the destructive consequences of moral evil, alienation from the primary source of value, we make fun. The making of fun where no real occasion for fun exists is essentially what comedy is about. Tragedy and comedy are, indeed, but two masks worn by the same character alternately, depending on the exigencies of the moment; that is, depending upon which mask best represents him in such a way as successfully to reduce the unacceptable tensions of his ambience. Thus the obvious truth of Socrates' argument at the end of the Symposium. Both tragedy and comedy are but one-sided expressions of the ironic sensibility.
** Lord Byron quoted in Quotation by David L. Hall
* ...noted changes from the period of Jesus’ lifetime to that of Paul in ambience and social composition of the Jesus movement; with implications for both core religious views and anti-Jewish polemical stances. As that movement evolved further, the changes in ambience and social composition of what became the Christian church were yet more pronounced.
** Robert Chazan, in Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom, P.56
* Our Jewish polemicists lived in an environment dominated by Christianity. Indeed, the spiritual pressures that occasioned the Jewish polemical works were themselves a reflection of the vigor of the Christian ambience.
** Robert Chazan, in "Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom", P.216
* More than just service, it's the respect, rapport, ambience that engages customers so that price becomes the last thing on their minds as they walk around stores.
** Candace Corlett, in Supermarkets strike back
* Love is quite wonderful; there’s no way you can conceal. The magnificent ambience of love will inevitably leave its seal.
** B. F. Davis, et al, in As We See It: An Evocative Collaboration of Poetry, Quotes and Short Stories, p. 20
* 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, Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice, p. 200
* The religious ethos of India was given flexibility, tolerance and strength by the absence of a single religious doctrine, based on a ‘Bible' or sacred dogma; by the multiplicity of forms and faiths that collectively formed India’s religious beliefs and the Vedic and beak-away traditions of our sages and seers. It was an inclusive attitude, drawing the alien heretical belief within a total ambience, extending and absorbing while respecting the beliefs of other religions. Heresy was unknown and religious persecution was minimal.
** Indira Gandhi, in Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes, p. 275
* In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
** Bill Laswell, in Bill Laswell interview by Jason Gross
* ...that Indian music, like Scottish and Irish music is modal and harmonic....During a performance it is this mood, colour or passion which the musician tries to evoke and explore, and according to ancient theory his task is made easier if the performance takes place at the time and in the ambiance proper to the raga.
** Reginald Massey, Jamila Massey in The Music of India, p. 106
* Consider a colour scheme that inspires peace and tranquility. A colour palette in lighter hues of blue, lavender, green and rose will create an ambience of relaxation and repose. Define your colour scheme.
** Willa Roberson-Mitchell, in Decorating Your Lifespace With Inner Vision: An (52 week) Interactive ..., p. 87
* Install a dimmer switch to your lights to create serenity. If you are using a lamp, consider using a low-wattage or three way bulbs to set the mood. A Japanese lantern (table top or floor model) disperses a soft subdued ambience that is ideal for a yoga/meditation atmosphere. Define your lighting.
** Willa Roberson-Mitchell, in "Decorating Your Lifespace With Inner Vision: An (52 week) Interactive ...", P.87
* Your room can be accented with accessories that symbolize inner vision. For inspiration, a sculpture, water fall, short screen, artwork and inspirational quotes are some of the accents you can integrate into your space. Aromatherapy of incense, oils, candles, and fresh flowers will enhance the ambience.
** Willa Roberson-Mitchell, in "Decorating Your Lifespace With Inner Vision: An (52 week) Interactive ...", p. 87
* Tarab music itself can be emotionally experienced outside the immediate ecstatic and interactive ambiance that originally led to its creation.
** Bruno Nettl, Melinda Russell , in In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical ImprovisationP.110
* Ambiance is an unstudied grace the grace of human dignity.
** William Pahlmann, in Never Have the Same Sex Twice: A Guide For Couples, p. 27
* Is the person you are interviewing just doing her job, or does she feel like a pioneer? Does the office look like that of a corporation that is really earning $27 billion a year? Ambiance is the subjective description of all the clues and hunches that color an author’s view point. It, too, can best be noticed during an in-person interview. Instead of picking up unconscious “feelings”, you can’t substantiate, go into each interview consciously prepared to jot down clues to ambience. Your writing will have more structure and more depth.
** Franklynn Peterson, et al, in The Author's Handbook, p. 116
* Ambience is tough to record. So are scenic descriptions unless you add them afterwards. You can record facts, figures and leads to other sources, but you’ll get access to the data only when your recording is transcribed or hunted through.
** Franklynn Peterson, et al, in “The Author's Handbook” p. 123
* I am pretty conventional, I was raised by a strict mother who said, 'Be sure to open doors and say please thank you and pull up the chair.' So I would take her for a great dinner with good ambience, low lighting, great food and a good bottle of wine. I like to be inquisitive and ask a lot of questions. I am not an ironic dating guy; I don't say, 'Let's go bowling.'
** Chris Pine, in Chris Pine Spills The Beans On Lindsay Lohan In A New Interview His 'Just My Luck' co-star
* I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.
** Jean Reno, in How Much Is a Pint of Milk? Jean Reno
* The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
** Paul Scott, in The Scrapbook Designer's Workbook: Unlocking the Secrets to Great Page Design
** 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'- era urban legends.
** Rob Sheffield, in Rob Sheffield
* In Roman Catholic devotional writing [as] the piety, is the religious sensibility or insights of an individual, usually a saint. By extension it can refer to the traditional ambience of a Roman Catholic Religious Order. This ambience shapes the order’s communal life, and is also a guide for members of those orders who preach, write, and counsel individuals on the spiritual life of prayer and devotion.
** J.Z.Smith, et al, the HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion” quoted in Making Sadza With Deaf Zimbabwean Women: A Missiological Reorientation of ...
* It's gritty and small and sometimes a little rough, but that's part of the charm. If you want a good punk or rock show, you need some dirt. Sometimes the band is so close, the lead singer is sweating on you. But, it just adds to the ambiance and vibe of the place.
** Ryan Tobin, in 8tracks radio | UP THE PUNX (24 songs) | free punk and punx
* All four elements were happening in equal measure – the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
** Charlie Trotter, in Our Cuisine
* Through the English appropriation of the French ambience and the related amientae of Italian, I found ambient defined in English as the character and atmosphere of a place.
** Peter Zumthor, in Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style quoted by William W. Braham, Daniel Willis, p. 145