Quotes About Insight

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

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.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

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.

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

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

I only write when listening to the music.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

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

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

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.