Quotes About Perception

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

Bad music can make you weak.

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.