Jean Philippe Rameau Quotes

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.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.

Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I often look at his fingers and face when he plays. the accordion breathes. There are lines on his cheeks. They look drawn on, and for some reason, when I see them, I want to cry. It is not for any sadness or pride. I just like the way they move and change. Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

Any musical output is emotional.

Even if a song has shallow lyrics, there's something that you feel, regardless of what their lyrics are.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

There are a lot of songs that, you know, just get me excited because they create a certain, I guess, set of colors in my head.

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

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

I think that some of the best Crowes stuff we did had that spontaneous vibe. Thats something thats always interested me in music. Im not really the kind of person to get too bogged down in the details. I think that takes away from the emotion and the vibe of what youre doing.

I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

All men desire by nature to know.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.