Hilary Hahn Quotes

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper kind of level.

Ultimately, you're looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.

Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.