Quotes About Perception

I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing

Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

Music can't change the world.

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false