Quotes About Perception

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.

There is no such thing as happy music.