Born Quote by Aaron Copland

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

— Nobuo Uematsu

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

— Robin Trower

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

— Katey Sagal

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

— Yehudi Menuhin

What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff…

— Van Morrison

Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished.

— J. J. Cale

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

— Eric Whitacre

For me, music is pure abstraction.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

— Bryan Ferry

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same…

— Ville Valo

Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

— Adam Gopnik

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

— Leo Ornstein