Cases Quote by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Music is organized sound.

— Edgard Varese

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

— Jonah Lehrer

Sound, and therefore music, can help shape or reshape our thoughts, even our cells.

— John R. Levine

Music is the human treatment of sounds.

— Jean Michel Jarre

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

— Pauline Oliveros

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

— Nicolas Cage

“Whenever a noise exceeds our processing abilities—we can’t decipher all the different sound waves hitting our hair cells— the mind . . . stops…

— Brian Boyd

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

— Florence Welch

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

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

— Anonymous

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

— Krystian Zimerman

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