Quotes About Understanding

Never take a person away from the music they love.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

All you need is love.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely