Quotes About Experience

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

Music is an experience, not a science.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.