Quotes About Perception

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.