Quotes About Intuition

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Never lose the groove to find a note.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.