Quotes About Experience

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.