Cutting Quote by John Cage

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

— Florence Welch

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for…

— Roger Waters

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate…

— Kurt Elling

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're…

— John Cage

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

— Diamanda Galas

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need…

— Marcus Mumford

It's music that is made to be listened to, not just heard. And it's got to be natural. Someone like Nick Drake is a…

— Jack Savoretti

I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot…

— Vladimir Nabokov

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that…

— Kenny Werner

Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal mix of…

— Julian Treasure

If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have…

— John Mayer

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

— Marina and the Diamonds