Tommy Lee Quotes

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

Everyone hears a song a different way and hears timing a different way.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

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

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.