Circumstances Quote by Derek Bailey

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

— Katey Sagal

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

— George Russell

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

— Eric Whitacre

Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in music is…

— Dave Soldier

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

— Katherine Neville

We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look…

— Marvin Minsky

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go…

— Keith Jarrett

Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Music theory, then, very simply, could be defined as a search for how and why music sounds right or wrong. In other words, the…

— Michael Pilhofer

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my…

— Dick Dale

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

— Keith Richards