Listening To Music Quotes - Page 17

• I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.

  John Varvatos

  Brother, Eight, Dna

  "The GQ+A: John Varvatos on His New Book 'John Varvatos: Rock in Fashion'". Interview with Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Formats are just illusions, and it's about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music. Every time there's a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.

  Bjork

  Iron, Mold, Hot

  "Bjork: 15 Years". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. August 15, 2011.

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• I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Radio, Fast Food

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• I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to racing though; it helps to fire me up plus it's good for blocking out the distractions around me.

  Chris Hoy

  Block, Fire, Racing

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he's a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file; I don't know what instrument he was playing them on; I know nothing about his section of the sound of the piece, and then when I'm sitting on trains I do a lot of train travel I turn them into pieces of music. And I love to do that; it's my favorite hobby.

  Brian Eno

  Brother, Favorite Hobby, Games

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Home, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

  Chamillionaire

  Thinking, Car, People

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

  Alison Krauss

  Song, Rain, Car

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• Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

  Aristotle

  Music, Passion, Character

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• Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

  Brian Blade

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing. I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it's like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world. They don't know what it's like when a song changes your life.

  Adam Selzer

  Song, Sorry, People

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• I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Communication, Writing

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• You don't need any brains to listen to music.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Music, Brain, Listening

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• If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

  Hilary Mantel

  Party, Sleep, Exercise

  FaceBook post by Hilary Mantel from Nov 03, 2012

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• When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

  Dave Grohl

  Sound, Tools, Machines

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• Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Might, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

  Mitch Lucker

  Listening, Promise, I Promise

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.

  John Lydon

  Hate, Rip, Car

  "John Lydon: Soundtrack of my Life". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Art, Moving, Eye

  "Faith Into Action: Thoughts on Selected Topics". Book by Daisaku Ikeda, 1999.

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• I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Book, Reading

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• When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Wings, Flow

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• As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

  Jake Bugg

  Heart, Soul, Songwriters

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Worry, Alcohol

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