Quotes About Listening

You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it's not a cause. It is what it is-and that's a beautiful artform.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Music isn't for the eyes, it's for the ears

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.