Music Listener Quotes: top 36 famous quotes about Music Listener

Music Listener Quotes & Sayings

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I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. — Serj Tankian

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is. — Erykah Badu

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues. — Craig Finn

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands. — James Mercer

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment. — Edgard Varese

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. — Roger Sessions

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener. — Marvin Minsky

A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. — Moby

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity. — Karl Barth

As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music. — Chaz Bundick

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. — Kelly Jones

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated. — A.R. Rahman

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant. — Dee Dee Ramone

Music affected him as women's talking did, when there was no interceding in it. He was an instructor, not a listener. — John Updike

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. — Carson McCullers

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand. — Paul Lansky

It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent. — Charles Bukowski

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. — Jimmy Buffett

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed. — W.A. Mathieu

Songs are as sad as the listener. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. — Lou Reed

It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it. — Jim Sullivan

He had a feel for silence, for leading to an unsounded note the listener yearned for ... — Annie Proulx

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician — Wynton Marsalis

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick ... maker. — Joshua Homme

The more music you make, the better listener you become. — Graham English

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener. — Pat Metheny

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be. — Beck

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher. — Richard Strauss

To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going. — Paul Rodgers

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say. — Isaac Stern

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft. — Henry Threadgill