Quotes About Perception

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?

I don't think Metallica sits around all day wondering why country music fans don't embrace them.

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.