Quotes About Experience

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

We live with the scars we choose.

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.