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Quotes About Sensory

Music is an experience, not a science.
~ Ennio Morricone
Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination
~ Iggy Pop
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
~ B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.
~ Roger Scruton
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
~ Adam Young
Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.
~ Tabitha Suzuma
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.
~ Stanley Kubrick
An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.
~ Gotye
I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.
~ Frantisek Kupka
Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine
~ Edgard Varese
When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.
~ Albert Hammond, Jr.
Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.
~ Ben Goertzel
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.
~ Brian Eno
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
~ Tommy Bolin
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.
~ May Sarton
I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.
~ Tod Machover
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
~ Henry Rollins
The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.
~ Walter Cronkite
I can hear the music all around me.
~ Dudley Moore