Listening To Music Quotes - Page 12

• My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.

  Dominic Monaghan

  House, Brain, Listening

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• My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

  Helen Reddy

  Baby, People, Being Ignored

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• What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a context. You can do other things while you're listening to music and of course, you can do other things while you're in the middle of architecture. The notion of multi-attention seems to me like it's the keynote to the beginning of the 21st century.

  Vito Acconci

  Listening, Architecture, Music Is

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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• Some cultures don't have a separate word for music and dance. To my knowledge, this notion of listening to music without dancing is a Western creation. I can't think of any artist that I love that doesn't inspire movement in some form or another. I guess Tangerine Dream or early Vangelis or something like that, you're not really going to dance. But on the whole, I feel like dancing and music are so naturally intertwined. I feel like subconsciously, that's the goal whenever I'm working on music. It's kind of the defining thing: Does it got some funk to it, basically?

  RJD2

  Dream, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things.

  Tao Lin

  Children, Lying, Book

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would rather read comics than watch movies, listen to music, anything. But it's not an operatic medium. I hear other people talk about being moved to tears by comics. I can't imagine that.

  Daniel Clowes

  Moving, People, Tears

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I listen to music every day and that is a fact. My son pointed out the other day that there's not a day that goes by without him listening to music in our house. I'm still an avid punter when it comes to either checking out bands or buying new music.

  Jazzie B

  Son, House, Listening

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• Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read books, Tolstoy and Chekhov and Gogol and others. Listen to music. Tchaikovsky. Watch our classical ballet. But the most important thing is that you need to talk with people.

  Vladimir Putin

  Book, People, Ballet

  "Putin Discusses Trump, OPEC, Rosneft, Brexit, Japan". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. September 5, 2016.

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• I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through different phases - sometimes I want to listen to music that's just pummeling.

  Robin Pecknold

  Listening, Different, Sometimes

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• Sometimes to get in the "musical mood," I'll just turn on music really loud, or go drive around and listen to music, or learn a song that I really like on guitar or piano. That gets me in the right frame of mind to proceed.

  John Britt Daniel

  Song, Musical, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think Japans work really hard, and when they have a chance to listen to music, they just go crazy. And the Ramones would be a natural fit for Japan, because Japan invented the cartoon, and the Ramones, especially in Rock 'N' Roll High School, are very cartoonish. So it'd be a perfect group for them.

  P. J. Soles

  Crazy, School, Thinking

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• The whole appeal of dance music is being liberated because music is liberating and it's not about club culture or the social aspect of playing the mating game or whatever you're doing at a club. It's more about the euphoric aspect of listening to music.

  Memory Tapes

  Listening, Culture, Music Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing is, when you're kind of creatively self-employed, your brain just kind of chooses the path of least resistance, so if you really exhausted and you've had a long day, then that's typically when you might respond to emails or if you're on a plane and have nothing else to do, then you might listen to music and write these satirical pieces trying to explain the charts with music theory.

  Owen Pallett

  Writing, Long, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What happens when I'm making a new album is I try not to listen to music that's coming out at the time. I turn off the radio and don't read any music blogs, because I tend to get really distracted by new music. When I hear it, I think, "Should I be doing that?"

  Nadine Shah

  Thinking, Trying, Get Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that if you listen to the same exact genre of music that you play, it is so easy to be influenced by it. There will be times where we are writing a song, and then realize that it songs like something we just heard on the radio. There was a while when we were writing, that I didn't listen to music because I didn't want to be influenced.

  Taylor Jardine

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

  Alan Greenspan

  Baseball, Golf, Play

  Source: www.today.com

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• Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.

  Tony MacAlpine

  Piano, Long, Different

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• I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.

  Rosanne Cash

  Book, Piano, Childhood

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• Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

  Zach Condon

  Listening, Important, Melody

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• I just don't really listen to music. I'm probably missing out, but I don't want to know what everybody else is doing. Nobody is strong enough to not be influenced. And I don't mean influenced by copying - I'd be influenced because I wouldn't want to do what someone else is doing. I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything.

  Fiona Apple

  Strong, Mean, Worry

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

  Kristoffer Rygg

  Artist, People, Creative

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically illiterate. But I have a pretty serendipitous approach to it.

  Carey Mercer

  Mean, Listening, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've never been a junkie, and never will be. I just like going out late to clubs with friends and listening to music. Always have done. It's not that unusual for girls of 26.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Girl, Listening, Going Out

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• I always listen to music when I write! I basically make a playlist for every essay; sometimes it's just one song, or three songs, over and over and over. I sort of find the emotional pitch of the piece, and then match music to it, and then the music becomes a shortcut to the feeling, so I can enter it and work anywhere: on planes, cafes, at work, the train.

  Melissa Febos

  Song, Writing, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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