Eno: "I believe that we are moving towards a position of using music and recorded sound with the variety of options that we presently use colour -- we might simply use to to 'tint' the environment, we might use it 'diagramatically,' we might use it to modify our moods in almost subliminal ways. I predict that the concept of 'muzak,' once it sheds its connotations of aural garbage, might enjoy a new (and very fruitful) lease of life"
1975 (two years before Music for Airports liner notes)
Music for Airports liner notes: "An ambience is defined as an atmosphere or a surrounding influence: a tint"
he endeavors to build up "a small but versatile catalogue of environmental music suited to a wide variety of moods and atmospheres"