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• It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Song, Sad Music, Made

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

  Kiki Smith

  Mother, Art, Father

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• Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

  Marvin Minsky

  Music, Personal Knowledge, Listening

  "Music, Mind, and Meaning". Computer Music Journal, Vol. 5, Number 3, web.media.mit.edu. Fall 1981.

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• Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

  Tom Harrell

  Music, Listening, Trying

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• If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

  Charles Mingus

  Symphony, Listening, Attention

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• If I dont need the money, I dont work. Im going to spend time with my family and friends, and Im going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.

  James Spader

  Family And Friends, Trying, Littles

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• Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

  Susan Sontag

  Learning, Mean, One Day

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• All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have your own individuality. Don't be a part of the crowd; don't be a wheel in the whole mechanism of a vast society. Be individual, on your own. Live life with your own eyes; listen to music with your own ears." But we are not doing anything with our own ears, with our own eyes, with our own minds; everything is being taught, and we are following it.

  Rajneesh

  Live Life, Eye, Individuality

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• That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice

  Christina Milian

  Funny, Practice, Focus

  "Christina Milian talks Be Cool!". Interview, movieweb.com. February 24, 2005.

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• With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

  Lisa Loeb

  Daughter, Mother, Art

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• Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

  Carl Jung

  Inspiration, Listening, Essentials

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• Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the Carrabian. I have a little house there where I spend two months listening to music, no playing because I don't bring the guitar with me, fishing and cooking my fish and charging the batteries for new concerts.

  Paco de Lucia

  Player, August, Fishing

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• I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Book, Relax, My Family

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

  David Byrne

  Music, People, Singing

  "Budos Band offers urgent, mysterious jams at 9:30 Club" by Chris Klimek, www.washingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sunset, Buddhism, Practice

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• When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.

  LeBron James

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

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• I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

  Dhani Harrison

  Want, Sometimes, Made

  "Dhani Harrison Honors Father George, Faces Fear of Missing Out" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

  Anthony Minghella

  Passion, Cds, Numbers

  Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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• When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

  Tom Glazer

  Music, Today, Folks

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• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  Daniel Ek

  Artist, Creating, People

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• I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Years, Woods

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• If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

  Charles Frazier

  Giving Up, Reading, Listening

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• But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing

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• I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Mean, Listening, Taste

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