Quotes About Perception

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

People aren't hearing all the music.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

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

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.