“What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.” PeopleIfsGivingKindDifferentSeemsSpiritNightCertainEnergySpaceAttentionAudienceMagicFrontsDependsEqualMusic IsAppreciationPerformersEvery NightListenersGive And TakeBeing Played Author:Nils Frahm
“Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.” WayLooksKindDoeArtFacesCertainPiecesGroupsMusic IsUglyMediumsVisualsYour FaceBrutalVolumeListenersObscureVisual Art Author:David Byrne
“Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.” MusicStudyMusic IsEntertainmentListeners Author:William C. Bryant
“Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.” PeopleNeedsArtCertainMusic IsAppreciateAdmireInterpretationListenersProjection Author:Conor Oberst
“To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.” CreatingMusic IsMoodListeners Author:Paul Rodgers
“I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.” ThinkingFeelsArtistProcessPowerfulInspireMusic IsMediumsDefinedCapabilityListenersIntuitiveBack And ForthPower Of Music Author:Serj Tankian
“The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.” FeelsIdeasMusic IsListeners Author:A. R. Rahman
“You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the listener, and you just can't do that unless you yourself are entertained at the same time.” FeelsReasonPlayEnjoyMusic IsJazzReason WhyLastingListenersTimerOld Timers Author:Barry Harris
“Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.” LittlesMusic IsListenersVentureInvitationsSubjectivity Author:Karl Barth
“The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.” HandsAgeArtistLostMusic IsAlbumsListenersArtworkDownloadsMp3 Author:Mark Hoppus
“I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so many other people's story at the same time. It kind of exemplifies that we are all kind of on the same wave[length] - it's amazing how comforting somebody else's story can be, because we have experienced their story in some way or another, and I can totally relate, and I get to feel that feeling and the expression of that emotion. I get to feel like as a listener, that somebody understands me, which is pretty incredible.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingKindI CanStoriesFeelingsSongEmotionExpressionMusic IsIncrediblesWaveAll KindsRelateBest ThingsLengthListenersComfortingUnderstand Me Author:Theresa Wayman
“I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.” ThinkingEventsMusic IsSelfishMakersListeners Author:Joshua Homme
“Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.” PeopleInvolvedMusic IsMalesClubsBarsListenersAsiaParticipantsSoutheast Asia Author:Alan Bishop