Quotes About Experience

Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.

What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.

Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.