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Quotes About Perception

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.
~ Zachary Cole Smith
There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.
~ Louis Armstrong
Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.
~ Paul van Dyk
When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.
~ John Scofield
Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.
~ Tabitha Suzuma
Music isn't just heard, it is felt.
~ Kelly Clarkson
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
~ Charlie Haden
I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric
~ Frank Zappa
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
~ Robert Fripp
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
~ Miles Davis
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
~ Frank Zappa
They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.
~ Terry Pratchett, Snuff
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
~ Edgar Wilson Nye
Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
~ Joan Jett
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
~ Oscar Wilde
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
~ John Philip Sousa
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
~ Carl Jung
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
~ John Philip Sousa
There is a great correlation between music and images.
~ Graham Nash
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
~ Jonny Greenwood
I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.
~ Frantisek Kupka
Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.
~ Albert Hammond, Jr.
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.
~ Janis Joplin