Listening To Music Quotes - Page 16

• I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

  Vikram Seth

  Writing, Bother, Ifs

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• If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

  Barbra Streisand

  Holiday, Records, Ifs

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

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• After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

  Tom Araya

  Song, Mean, Remember

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• According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Sports, Religious, Stress

  "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It". Book by Kelly McGonigal, www.businessinsider.com. December 29, 2011.

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• The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Reading, Home, Listening

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• I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things. I don't think having an internet presence helps financially.

  Tao Lin

  Children, Lying, Book

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"

  Kelly Hogan

  Song, Rocks, Nerd

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.

  Sophie Blackall

  Silence, Decision, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Self, People

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

  Gerard Way

  Thinking, Reviews, Music Is

  "Interview: My Chemical Romance Is 'For F***Ing Lif'". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 25, 2012.

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• I would never get into the music industry per se, but listening to music really helps me to concentrate. It's just a nice way for me to vibe and chill. There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.

  Haley Pullos

  Nice, Listening, Way

  "Haley Pullos Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to create that.

  Will Oldham

  Past, People, Minutes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Fun, Thinking, Style

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

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• I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Track, Bats, Music Is

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Listening, Tvs, Watching Tv

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I got a naughty thrill out of listening to music that was that dirty, especially being that young and able to listen to it around my parents. Kids would come over to my house to listen to Too $hort records.

  Moshe Kasher

  Dirty, Kids, Naughty

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive at new judgments. These attitudes are brought into relation with many others, including our standing tendencies to think and feel in particular ways, and we try to fit our psychological capacities and responses together.

  Philip Kitcher

  Attitude, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.

  Eyvind Kang

  Next Day, Listening, One Day

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

  Julia Kent

  Downtime, Touring, Enjoy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To me, there's a difference between going to a concert and getting a recording. It's almost like a different release. The physical album itself is the more meaningful one for me, but I don't want to tell people how to listen to music.

  Tristan Perich

  Meaningful, Differences, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Mirrors, People, Way

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

  Devendra Banhart

  Thinking, Impact, Video

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Radio, Fast Food

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• I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.

  John Varvatos

  Brother, Eight, Dna

  "The GQ+A: John Varvatos on His New Book 'John Varvatos: Rock in Fashion'". Interview with Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Home, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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