- Ideas
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- 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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heart is always listening to the music I grew up with from the '70s and '80s to early '90s.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I released 'Songs From My Bedroom'... that's the one that people started actually listening to.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020