Musical Sensitivity Quotes

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

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.

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

There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your instrument and not cross over to that tasteless place.

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

A lot of people love men that rock; I love men that love a good melody and a good harmony.

Everything is music for the born musician.

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven, and the more glorious that glory.

Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.

In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

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.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.

I don't really care what type of beat it is. As long as it appeals to my ear, I'm gonna do a song to it.

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.