Listening To Music Quotes - Page 6

• When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.

  LeBron James

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

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• We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Mind, Video

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

  Pope Francis

  Sports, Play, People

  "Pope Francis Has a Few Words in Support of Leisure". www.nytimes.com. April 26, 2013.

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• How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Unique, Listening

  "Amy Grant: 'Somewhere Down the Road'". CBNmusic Interview, www.cbn.com. October 16, 2013.

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• I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

  Geri Halliwell

  Daughter, Mother, Beach

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• I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Writing, Silence, Needs

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• I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Manuscripts

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• I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

  Claire Denis

  Coffee, Perfect Days, Cigarette

  Interview with Adam Nayman, reverseshot.org. June 26, 2009.

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• When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.

  Penn Jillette

  Years, Games, Listening

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

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• I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

  John Legend

  Fun, Hearing

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• I never listen to music when I write.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing

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• A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

  David Lynch

  Hate, Thinking, Painting

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• If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Player, Guitar, Japan

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Self, Understanding

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

  Natalia Kills

  Secular Music, Listening, Teens

  "A Moment With Natalia Kills". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 28, 2014.

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• I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Writing, Car, Music Is

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• You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

  Brett Favre

  Used, Knows

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• Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Names, People

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Cosmo Girl Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.

  Carlos Santana

  Father, Years, Two

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• I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

  Lincoln Child

  Writing, Distraction, I Can

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• I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

  Richard Price

  Chance, Knows

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• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Concentration

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• If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.

  Virginia Woolf

  Success, Sight, People

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.835, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

  Gemma Arterton

  Listening, I Can

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• I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

  Michael Nesmith

  Long, Listening, Records

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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