Quotes About Perception

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in.

It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

I think the music is relevant and if people are into the music, they're going to be into it regardless of when it comes from.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

All rock music is fake news.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.