Quotes About Discovery

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

I got into music when I was 12, 13.

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.