Quotes About Understanding

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

People aren't hearing all the music.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.