Quotes About Experience

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

Music isn't just heard, it is felt.

I've been playing music most of my life.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.