Appreciating Music Quotes

Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music that has lifted people. If you do not have a taste for it, listen to it thoughtfully. If you do not like it the first time, listen to it again and keep listening.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.

I remember years ago hearing a top band talking about a song of theirs that was a monster hit and they were really dissing it, saying that they hoped they'd never have to play it again. I thought: 'That's not right. If people love a song, play it.'

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

I like other people's music.