Quotes About Experience

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one's way about the world.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.