Listening To Music Quotes - Page 13

• All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.

  Danger Mouse

  School, Mean, Night

  4 Copy quote

• I'm always producing with the idea that the music is representing one person. That could play a factor in the intimacy of it. I'm always producing for that one person, never for a group of people - especially if it's non-danceable. I'm always thinking that one person's going to listen to this and that person might want to feel a certain way at a certain time. That can be out in space, it can be at the bus stop, it can be laying in bed listening to music. I look at it as if I'm whispering in someone's ear, basically.

  Jeff Mills

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we think of training ourselves in godliness, we usually think of the traditional spiritual disciplines, but it can also be practical activities like taking a nature walk or listening to music - whatever helps us draw closer to God. God hardwired our brains and bodies in such a way that spiritual training, combined with God's work in us, has the very real effect of making us more attuned to spiritual reality and our true identity in Christ.

  Kenneth Boa

  Spiritual, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun. I spent my late adolescence in New York and I used to go to a lot of gay clubs. The music there was always just about love and connection and celebrating life. I think, for people going through something really hard, to go to a place where you can let loose and listen to music as a distraction, that's about a better place, a better way of life - that's where all the attraction lies.

  Halsey

  Fun, Lying, Gay

  "Halsey: I lost a sense of who I was". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.com. June 27, 2017.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

  Theodora Goss

  Art, Reading, Museums

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a short while, to get it right. Which is why I sometimes listen to music when I'm revising. Music creates moods for me quicker than any other medium.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Degrees, Example, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Silence, Tables, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  Ian Anderson

  Writing, Thinking, Guitar

  4 Copy quote

• I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Growing Up, Thinking, Car

  4 Copy quote

• Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

  Marty Becker

  Music, Listening, Way

  4 Copy quote

• I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Writing, Rocks, Old And New

  4 Copy quote

• I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Numbers, Twenties, Band

  4 Copy quote

• As a kid, I was always listening to music. I would just go in to my room and put on an album, read the lyrics, and just spend hours and hours in there. Plus, my sister Laurie played piano (in fact she taught me my first few notes) so music was always around one way or another.

  Andrew Hollander

  Kids, Piano, Listening

  4 Copy quote

• When I'm in the mood to listen to music, I do like to go to the SkyBar [ L.A.].

  Tracy Morgan

  Mood

  "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up.

  King Louie

  Musical, Style, Listening

  4 Copy quote

• To me, art and music inform each other continually, and when I was making more music there was an overall aesthetic that was shared by both mediums. Now I always listen to music when I work, so when I am working a lot, that is when I start searching out new music and finding new things to get excited about.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Excited, Mediums

  Source: www.believermag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.

  Michael Dumontier

  Pyramids, Trying, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Moving, Perfect, Worry

  "Ellen Degeneres ‘Ellen’s Even Bigger Really Big Show’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. November 21, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

  Avey Tare

  Creating, Listening, Environmental

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fun, Teenager, People

  4 Copy quote

• You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Sports, Children, Mistake

  4 Copy quote

• Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Different, Inspired, Sometimes

  5 Copy quote

• When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a few notes on it. There are kids who are just drawn to listening to music and dancing to it and trying to conduct.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Kids, Years, Play

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like Les Miserables. The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.

  Lindy Booth

  Running, Workout, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky.

  Barbara Abercrombie

  Dream, Art, Reading

  Barbara Abercrombie (2012). “A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement”, p.185, New World Library

  4 Copy quote

  Show source