Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to…

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I listen to a wide array of music, all depends on the mood I'm in at the time.

— G-Eazy

I love rock music, dance music, so it depends on my mood. But I mainly listen to dance music before going out on court.

— Victoria Azarenka

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the…

— Steven Pinker

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I grew up with hearing, so I have a really good understanding of music theory and the structure of music.

— Mandy Harvey

For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

— Jacob Collier

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or…

— Johan Huizinga

My whole being sonically comes from my dad's understanding of music.

— Thundercat

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and…

— Wynton Marsalis

Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my understanding of…

— Kamasi Washington

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

— John Arbuthnot

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

— Wynton Marsalis

Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it. They are…

— Henry Jackman

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of…

— Justin Adams