Quotes About Experience

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.