Quotes About Understanding

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

Music is a language, a universal language.

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

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.

...And you're the only one who knows.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.