Acting Quote by John Cage

“Music is an unconscious exercise in metaphysics in which the mind does not know it is philosophizing.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your…

— Joan Osborne

I would say totally, but not consciously. We decided to do this I dont know when before a lot of changes happened. I think…

— Medeski Martin And Wood

Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than…

— Nina Simone

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

— Thomas Beecham

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's…

— Burt Bacharach

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

— David Sanborn

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

— Kali Uchis

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

— Bobby Hutcherson

When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology,…

— Yanni

You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.

— Aaron Bruno

When I do music, I have a hard time experiencing it like everyone else, because there's so much thought that goes into it. You…

— No I.D