Quotes About Experience

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

I love the music, but being on the road ain't a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. You've got to - all those people can't come to my house, so I've got to go out on the road and play for them.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.