Quotes About Awareness

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.

People aren't hearing all the music.

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.