Attention Quote by Pauline Oliveros

When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music…

— John McLaughlin

Something that I did, and I developed out of that sonic meditations, which were pieces that I composed in the '70s that now are…

— Pauline Oliveros

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something…

— Pauline Oliveros

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.

— Kendrick Lamar

I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat for, like,…

— Dreezy

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.

— Ladyhawke

The breath of the mind is attention.

— Joseph Joubert

When I write songs, I write from a lot of perspectives.

— Goldlink

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

— Jon Hopkins

I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made…

— Bill Callahan