Music Immersion Quotes

I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!

I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.

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.

I was actually going for the pre-medicine track and studying for my MCATs and then I decided to follow my passion, which was music. So I moved to India after college to re-immerse myself in Indian music.

I remember trying so hard to get into Bon Iver. I'd lie in bed listening with my eyes screwed up, like, 'This is just depressing me.'

I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

I do love all types of music. I could be in a session for eight hours, and when I leave, I'll instinctively go to the radio or put on my favourite songs.

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

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

I'll listen to 3 artists on repeat for more than a month.

I’m not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I’m interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That’s the way music works for me. It’s purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That’s just it.

Basically my whole life is music, that's all I do 24-7.

I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

I've played in bands myself, and sat on the floor photographing some of the greatest bands in the world while they rehearse. What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you.

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

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.

At one point, I took a year off just to listen to music and really digest it. I listened to everything you could imagine.

I have always listened to Indian music online, much before my first visit to the country in 2015. But, when I got to India, I couldn't get enough of it.

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.