Aural Perception Quotes

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.

The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

I started singing one day along with my cousin, and I didn't take it too seriously. The people started telling me, 'Hey, you have a nice voice.' and I was like, 'Really?'

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you.

I don't really sing... I just hear notes so I know what it's supposed to sound like, if that makes sense. You ever hear someone try to teach a choir how to sing, but they can't sing? That's me.

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

To listen to my first record, it doesn't sound like me.

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.

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

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

I grew up having an ear for what was hot and was not - what sounds good in music and what doesn't.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.