Quotes About Awareness

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

...And you're the only one who knows.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.