Quotes About Perception

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

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

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Whatever you believe, you become.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

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

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

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

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

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.