Listening To Music Quotes - Page 12

• When I'm in writing mode I tend not to listen to music. I usually have a gestation period before I start writing. When I'm listening, it usually happens on the road. So, we'd been listening to a lot of music on tour the year before and all that stuff sank in.

  Luke Temple

  Writing, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to ride the school bus to school and just listen to music with my headphones. I'd stick my head out the window and just think about how much I wanted to be a singer. I always wanted to do it, but I think I was always in the wrong place. I didn't really have any opportunities. So I left LA four years ago and I really just left my old life behind. I threw everything into pursuing music.

  ZZ Ward

  School, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess I have some kind of a visceral connection with drums. I'm looking to create music that people can react to viscerally, and people will respond to viscerally. I think that you can listen to music, to a song you've never heard before and not really like it, but also feel like you're responding to it physically whether you like it or not. I think that's a powerful aspect about music, and I think that's something that draws me to drums.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Song, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I listen to music a great deal. In a way, it's trying to express things that can't be expressed in words. That's something that interests me, too. Even though I use words to express myself, I am trying to, it seems to me, get beyond that.

  John Ashbery

  Trying, Use, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.

  Tony MacAlpine

  Piano, Long, Different

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• I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.

  Rosanne Cash

  Book, Piano, Childhood

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• Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

  Zach Condon

  Listening, Important, Melody

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• People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

  Kristoffer Rygg

  Artist, People, Creative

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Different, Inspired, Sometimes

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• I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.

  Amy Adams

  Player, Iphone, Dvds

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fun, Teenager, People

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• This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like Les Miserables. The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.

  Lindy Booth

  Running, Workout, Sound

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• Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

  Theodora Goss

  Art, Reading, Museums

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a short while, to get it right. Which is why I sometimes listen to music when I'm revising. Music creates moods for me quicker than any other medium.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Degrees, Example, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Silence, Tables, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

  Alan Greenspan

  Baseball, Golf, Play

  Source: www.today.com

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• To me, art and music inform each other continually, and when I was making more music there was an overall aesthetic that was shared by both mediums. Now I always listen to music when I work, so when I am working a lot, that is when I start searching out new music and finding new things to get excited about.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Excited, Mediums

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.

  Michael Dumontier

  Pyramids, Trying, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Growing Up, Thinking, Car

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• When I'm in the mood to listen to music, I do like to go to the SkyBar [ L.A.].

  Tracy Morgan

  Mood

  "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Moving, Perfect, Worry

  "Ellen Degeneres ‘Ellen’s Even Bigger Really Big Show’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. November 21, 2008.

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• When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a few notes on it. There are kids who are just drawn to listening to music and dancing to it and trying to conduct.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Kids, Years, Play

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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• It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

  Avey Tare

  Creating, Listening, Environmental

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky.

  Barbara Abercrombie

  Dream, Art, Reading

  Barbara Abercrombie (2012). “A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement”, p.185, New World Library

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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  Ian Anderson

  Writing, Thinking, Guitar

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