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Quotes About Ear

I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
~ Eddie Murphy
Joe Inglett He had a moth in his ear during a game. They had to shine a light in his ear and pick it out with a tweezer.
~ Bill Schroeder
Because of the delicate structure of the ear, our hearing is vulnerable to damage. We're born with about sixteen thousand of the cochlear hair cells that allow us to pick up sounds, and these cells don't regenerate.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Yvonne started humming the QuickGo jingle, one of those torturous tunes that enters through the ear canal and proceeds to ricochet around the skull in search of an escape route it will never find.
~ Harlan Coben
The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.
~ Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
~ Sir Thomas Beecham
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
~ J. B. Morton
The Ear is the local bar down the block from the agency. It's one of the oldest drinking establishments in New York, and it got its current name because the neon curves on the letter "B" in "Bar" burned out years ago, leaving only "Ear" glowing.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Bullseye. Well, almost. The cleaver misses his ear by a mere inch. He stops short, but he doesn't turn around. Instead he squares his shoulders then resumes his stroll out the door.
~ Josie Brown
I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.
~ Jeff Gutt
I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.
~ Dick Dale
This flea which I have in mine ear.
~ Francois Rabelais
He had damaged … the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.
~ Blake Bailey
Cope cupped his hand to his ear. "Listen, Frank. Hear it?" His voice was a whisper. "That's the sound of your incompetence being made obvious to the masses. Not just your incompetence, but your suicidal stupidity at going after your superior when the facts do not back you up." "I
~ Harlan Coben
The operator whispered something in the man's ear.
~ Harlan Coben
When I'm scoring something like a string quartet, it's all notated music, so it's meticulously written in the score, which is very different than doing things by ear.
~ Bryce Dessner
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
~ Bo Burnham
Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.
~ Louis Armstrong
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.
~ Donald Fagen
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.
~ Steve Kazee
Incline thine ear, O Lady, to hear my prayers: and turn not away from me the beauty of thy face. Turn our mourning into rejoicing: and our tribulation into joy.
~ St Bonaventure
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
~ Thornton Wilder
breath, pressed an ear against his chest and took the poor fellow's pulse. While he worked, he asked about the
~ Michael Chabon
Did an angel whisper in your ear hold you close and take away all your fear in those long, last moments
~ Michael Connelly