Another Quote by Compay Segundo

All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.

— Max Richter

“By contrast, the three other features—conjunct melodic motion, limited macroharmony, and centricity—are common to virtually all human music. This near universality may be attributable,…

— Dmitri Tymoczko

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

— Ilaiyaraaja

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're…

— Dianne Reeves

Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending on the…

— Josh Garrels

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

— Duke Ellington

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Each musical finds its own way.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems…

— Willie Nelson

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

— Paul Auster

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

— Gordon Getty

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and…

— John Lydon