Ears Quotes - Page 8

• When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

  Neil Young

  Hate, People, Thank You God

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• By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

  Leo Ornstein

  Patterns, Visuals

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• My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Father, Ravel, Hank Williams

  "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.

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• I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  People, Receiving, Different

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• In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, World, Building

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• A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sound, May, Evening

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Healthy, Sound

  Henry David Thoreau, Wesley T. Mott, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2005). “Bonds of Affection: Thoreau on Dogs and Cats”, p.32, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Roots, Phenomenology, Quests

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.62, 1988.

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• The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Eye, Pages, Tongue

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”

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• But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

  Robert Browning

  Musician, May, Welcome

  1864 Dramatis Personae,'Abt Vogler'.

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• When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.

  Francis Scott Key

  Country, Song, Home

  Francis Scott Key (1857). “Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq”, p.34

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• For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.

  William Carlos Williams

  Book, Thinking, Wind

  1949 Paterson, bk.3,'The Library'.

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• To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,I hold to be damnable and heretical:and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,my uncleToby fell into it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Plato, Love Is, Men

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 6, ch. 37

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• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  Paul Simon

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  "Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center" by Richard Albero and Fred Styles, Guitar Player, April 1975.

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• I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Play, Long

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• I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Flower, Cutting, Sea

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• Opinions need a willing ear.

  John McAfee

  Needs, Opinion, Willing

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• I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

  Jimmy Durante

  Hurt, Nuts, Mind

  "Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante". Book by Gene Fowler, 1951.

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• Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Cities, Paris

  Bram Stoker (2015). “The Burial of the Rats”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Two, Pilots

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price”, p.37

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• Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.

  Joseph Addison

  Husband, Night, Men

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.48

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• There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

  Marcel Proust

  Silence, Flutes, Breathe

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.138, Vintage

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• It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

  Plutarch

  Tasks, Citizens, Speech

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.460, 谷月社

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• To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Art, Thinking, Voice

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 112), 1966.

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