Quotes About Immersion

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

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

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.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

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

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

Wherever you are—be there.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.