Quotes About Understanding

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

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Music is the universal language.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

Nobody can hear you read music.

I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.