Quotes About Misunderstanding

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

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

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn't understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.