Quotes About Experience

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

All music is the blues. All of it.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.