- Nov 07, 2020
Listening Quotes
How music shapes memory and taste.
This page leans heavily on music: enjoying a song more than expected, a lasting love for Seventies rock albums, and a frustration with bands that lean on harmony guitars without doing anything new. See Love quotes for more on lasting favorites.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to karate for about four years, and I learned a lot about focus and listening very good.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's about listening first, then selling.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have no desire to spend my off-hours listening to other shows. Unless it's Howard Stern, of course.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12, I didn't know about Nirvana or Oasis or any of those people. I was listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Gershwin.
- Disclosure
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea is to recruit in a closed environment, rather than listening to the press or getting distracted by conflicting agents' claims. We try and make cold decisions based on information.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.
- Nov 07, 2020