- 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
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.
- Bob Marley
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Floetry, Nas, Jay-Z, Beyonce.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, with certain characters, you have to listen. Sometimes, listening can be funnier: the thing you don't say is the one-liner. That's the ying to the yang.
- Late-Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were making 'Juvenile Hell,' we were listening to the Jungle Brothers, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Biz Markie, A Tribe Called Quest.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was recording my first solo album 'Imaginaryland,' I was listening to a lot of movie scores.
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- Nov 07, 2020