Listening Quotes - Page 58

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.

When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

I always enjoy listening to Rush Limbaugh. I often agree with him. Sometimes I disagree with him.

You're not listening with your eyes.

I don't think anyone listening to my music needs any special knowledge. They don't need to have a background in contemporary music. They don't need to go to new-music concerts all the time in order to be able to understand it.

I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening.

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

It doesn't matter what kind of music you like or what kind of person you are or what you're used to listening to, or whether you know me or not. It doesn't matter, either way you can be inspired by it [my songs]. Each way I want to make it relatable to that group, but most of all keep the inspirational part of it, for sure."

Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear... I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alteration. People can go on telling it in their own way, remembering it the way they want. And in each telling the ending may change, or even the beginning. Inevitably, in some cases it will be worse, and in others it just might be better. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

Most pop albums I was looking at as examples to point out production elements had a song that made you want to dance. I've been listening to electronic music forever and I just wanted to have something dancey.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right, what one feels is right to do in the moment, and the way the audience is listening.

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.

Honestly, I'm not listening to much of what's going on today.