Quotes About Perception

When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Nobody can hear you read music.

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.