Hearing Quote by Miles Davis

Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall…

— Ilaiyaraaja

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of…

— Justin Adams

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

— Emmylou Harris

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

— Steven Pinker

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so…

— John Coltrane

It's a mysterious thing, music. You're just never sure. You 'get' it, but does anyone else even get a chance to know it exists?…

— Jim Kerr

Music comes from a place we don't know.

— Chris Martin

Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of…

— David Byrne

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.…

— John Coltrane

It never ceases to amaze me. I'll be in a bank and I think the person staring at me is going to say, 'I…

— Nicholas Hammond

When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness…

— Wynton Marsalis

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really…

— Brandon Boyd