Music Perception Quotes

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.

I never worry 'cause people always try to categorize me. "Oh, that's reggaeton." "Oh, he's a Latin rapper." "Oh, he's crunk." "Oh, he's a Southern rapper," or, "He's a club rapper." As long as they're listening to the music and they're talkin' about it, one way or the other, that means I'm doing something right.

I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

I wouldn't use a song I didn't think was my brand or image.

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

I don't see music as working.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.

Hopefully, the people that would look at a Good Charlotte record and dismiss it for maybe what they think is a certain kind of content, if they do discover something meaningful, then it's a nice surprise. I like those kinds of contradictions.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

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

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.