Quotes About Attention

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

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.

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

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

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.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

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

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

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.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.