Music Quotes

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

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

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.

Women's music is underrepresented.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.