Sensory Preference Quotes

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds but cannot keep it up for more than a few minutes. Visual impressions, reflections of hands in lacquered wood, a diligent bald spot over a fiddle, take over, and soon I am bored beyond measure by the motions of the musicians.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

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.

It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well.

I go to Amazon to browse for things I can then go find at the mall. It's like window shopping online. I want to touch the things that I buy. I am the kid who still likes actual books, bookstores, and libraries.

I'm not particularly tactile.

I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.

Horns always influenced me more than voices.

I do wear gloves for things that sting a lot or prick a lot. But I just like to feel with my hands. I find gloves cumbersome and uncomfortable and I've got tough old hands so the old cut doesn't matter.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

I'm a visual person.