Figures Quote by George Russell

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

— Derek Bailey

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

— Eric Whitacre

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

You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.

— James Lapine

That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition.

— Kali Uchis

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

— Albert Einstein

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

— Nina Simone

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

— Amos Lee

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

— Albert Einstein

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

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own…

— Questlove