Quotes About Understanding

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

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.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.