Quotes About Listening

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can't sing,I can always continue listening to it.

Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.

People aren't hearing all the music.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

The music beckons to those who are listening.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.