Quotes About Listening

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I can hear the music all around me.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Nobody can hear you read music.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.