Quotes About Perception

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

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.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

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

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.