Hearing Quotes - Page 8

• Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Truth, Sound, Firsts

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Thinking, Average

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• Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Waiting, Violin

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.3, Vintage

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• Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

  John Lahr

  Music, Science, Silence

  John Lahr (1970). “Up against the fourth wall: essays on modern theater”

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• Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Eye, Hands

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• One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Heard

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1851). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.308

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• I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's not going to be like they're all going to leave. One of the reasons I'm holding this hearing in the morning is to hear from somebody who actually understands what's involved here - Janet Napolitano - and I hope that from what she says and what we hear from her, we can start building some consensus.

  Patrick Leahy

  Country, Morning, Reality

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• For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Humanity, Environmental

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• Hearing the blues changed my life.

  Van Morrison

  Changed, Changed My Life

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• I never get tired of hearing compliments.

  John Lithgow

  Tired, Compliment

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• I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

  Chi McBride

  Men, Years, People

  "Chi McBride of 'Boston Public'". Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2001.

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• Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Hate, Worry, Trying

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• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  World, Christianity, Shocked

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• But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Humanity, Stills

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Tears, Trying, Way

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• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Sick, Laughing, Lines

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• The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Song, Play, Trying

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• So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

  Ronnie Spector

  Song, Baby, Stills

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• I never get enough of the adrenaline rush of hearing good music played live and played loud like this. Hearing these songs again snatches me out of the day-to-day and helps me forget all the things I usually waste my time worrying about. As long as the music's playing I don't have to do anything except listen, relax, and enjoy myself.

  David Moody

  Song, Long, Worry

  David Moody (2010). “Hater”, p.37, Macmillan

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• It’s the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

  Steve Farrar

  Quiet, Obedience, Quiet Life

  Steve Farrar (2006). “King Me: What Every Son Wants and Needs From His Father”, p.171, Moody Publishers

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• Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

  Jon Pareles

  Volcanoes, Play, Piano

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• Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

  Leo Ornstein

  Writing, Men, Ears

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• We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Sound, Cases, Certain

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• A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.

  Niels Bohr

  Funny, Science, Firsts

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