Quotes About Listening

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.