“Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.” WorldMusic IsUnderstoodWorld Music Author:Austin Carlile
“Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.” NeedsWholeMusicianMusic IsUnderstoodUselessIrrelevantEpoch Author:Pierre Boulez
“I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.” NeedsWould BeAudienceMusic IsUnderstoodExtremes Author:Igor Stravinsky
“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.” MeanCharacterFactsLanguageMusicMessagesMusic IsUnderstoodCreatorContradictory Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.” PeopleMusic IsUnderstoodMali Author:Vieux Farka Toure
“Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.” LooksChildrenJoyAnimalMusic IsUnderstoodAll ThingsSymphony Author:Igor Stravinsky
“That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.” IfsWayWellsSeemsLanguageMusic IsUnderstoodUniversalAdagesUniversal LanguageReally True Author:William Fitzsimmons