I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
In Mali, you hear music everywhere. What is fantastic in Mali is the music tradition is handed down from father to son orally. It is not written. You learn from your father and add something, because you are living now and telling a story to others. This results in many different interpretations of the same song.
The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.
I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.
It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.
We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.
When I hear music, I come alive. I feel electrified. I just get into the music and I start moving.
I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.
I've always wanted to be a director; it's just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music videos and all the shots and setups to edit it all together. If I interact with a person, I'm seeing a whole scene come to life.
I just want people to feel what I feel when I hear music that I love.
Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.
Now anybody can make music at home, and you can hear music on any computer without having to buy it. Everything is apparently better with all the machines we have now, but at the same time, the quality of life is not improving.
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.
When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.
I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.
I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.
I just always hear music in my head. I thought that was normal. My wife said, 'Ramin, that's not normal.'
