Victoria Legrand Quotes

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

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.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

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

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

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

We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

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.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.

You know, I don't like talking about music very much. I have quite the hard time explaining myself.

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.

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

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

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

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

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.

I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.