Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
Music comes from a place we don't know.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
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