Comment by xoxxala
Brian Eno has this great line from the liner notes for this album:
"Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."
I've always found ambient to be perfect for listening while working. Now I understand why!
Thanks for the quote. It shows why Eno was so successful - I find all my favorites work either as entirely background sound or as a total listening experience on their own.