Quotes About Awareness

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

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.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

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

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.

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

I can hear the music all around me.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

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

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

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

you dont know what you got till its gone

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