When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content.
I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.
Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.
I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.
Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.
I wish I had perfect pitch, but I don't, and thanks to the miracle of YouTube, a bad night lives forever!
I'm a musician first and sight has never had anything to do with it.
Your head is a stereo input. The density and cartilage of your ears embed certain extra characteristics into stereo sound sources. Your brain decodes that and gives you sound plus conscious directions.
I wanted there to be something to fill the space and to catch the listener's ear, but I didn't want there to be any 'Virtual Self' songs that had a clearly defined vocal with lyrics and top line. If you do hear any lyrics, it's just your brain filling in the gap, because those moments are just various syllables combined.
Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.
Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
Listening to something without being present is different from being there in the flesh.
The lyrics tend to fascinate people, but for me, when I listen to a record I don't always latch on to the lyrics. I listen to the whole thing and it may be five or six days before I even realize what the song's about.
The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.
Sound is the first thing that we tune into.
A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar.
You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.
People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.
Your voice and music are the same to me.
Sometimes you can listen to a song all your life without hearing it.
