Quotes About Appreciation

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

I love this young people's music.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Taylor deserves it. I don't think there is anyone with half a brain that would say otherwise. She has done a lot for us in country music. We are lucky enough in country music to call her one of us.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don't like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

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

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.