Eddie Murphy Quotes

I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.

My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry.

Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement.

I think music isn't just a genre or sound. If it sounds good and makes you feel good it's a beautiful thing.

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

Sometimes when you play music, you start thinking, "This is rocking!"

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good. Sometimes it's to make you feel amped, or angry, or nervous. I was listening to a lot of Public Enemy when I made the record.

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

So as I think back on it now, I think it is safe to say that music is something you both hear and feel. I also realize that feelings change frequently and that for the most part, they are not a constant. They change from high to low, happy to sad, content to ecstatic and back down again. Not all music has the same purpose, but most music makes you feel "something.