When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.
People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.
Taking your time with music is real important to me.
People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.
My musical tastes are very diverse. I just never felt like listening to certain kinds of bands. There's too much great stuff out there.
Great music is in the ear of the beholder.
My taste in coffee has got better with age, and so has my taste in music.
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
I don't really like a lot of people's music.
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.
It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.
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.
I'm super particular with my music.
I'm no musical snob.
When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.
Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.
I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.
Just because you like one song from an artist, that doesn't make you a fan.
