Listening To Music Quotes - Page 7

• I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

  Jeannette Walls

  Holiday, Black, Bakers

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• When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

  Natalia Kills

  Secular Music, Listening, Teens

  "A Moment With Natalia Kills". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 28, 2014.

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• If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

  Virginia Woolf

  Successful, Night, Sight

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• I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

  Bill Wyman

  Music, Rocks, Long

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• When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.

  Penn Jillette

  Years, Games, Listening

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

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• I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Manuscripts

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• I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Editing, Relax

  "Joanne Harris: My desktop". Interview with Ben Johncock, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Writing, Silence, Needs

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• I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

  Geri Halliwell

  Daughter, Mother, Beach

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• A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

  David Lynch

  Hate, Thinking, Painting

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• How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Unique, Listening

  "Amy Grant: 'Somewhere Down the Road'". CBNmusic Interview, www.cbn.com. October 16, 2013.

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• I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

  Gemma Arterton

  Listening, I Can

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• I don't have to support Bibi, his government or any other conservative organization in order to come and play music in Israel, for people who want to come and listen to music. I think it's b******t to ask me to boycott Israel and not America. It's interesting that some people choose to pick on Israel and isolate her... I was invited to perform and that's why I'll perform, as long as the border is open and I'm welcomed. I'm just coming to play.

  Anton Newcombe

  Thinking, Government, Israel

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• Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

  Pope Francis

  Sports, Play, People

  "Pope Francis Has a Few Words in Support of Leisure". www.nytimes.com. April 26, 2013.

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• I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

  John Legend

  Fun, Hearing

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• I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going on in the hit parades around the world. I have no prejudices for any kind of music genre, and I listen with pleasure to many songs on the radio that my children already know of by heart, while I hear them practically for the first time.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Song, Children, Heart

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• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.

  Alan Moore

  Song, Writing, Careers

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• My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Reading, Home

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• Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Teenager, Cat

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

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• But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Nice, Stupid, People

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• The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Book, Reading, Listening

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• She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped briefly. "Look at paintings, allow yourself to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her, and love her.

  Koushun Takami

  Girl, Thinking, Sky

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• I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

  Colm Toibin

  Song, Morning, Writing

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• It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Book, Talking, Ideas

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