Quotes About Appreciation

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

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, there's nothing better than that.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

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.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I love all types of music myself.

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.