Listening To Music Quotes - Page 9

• That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

  Dana Spiotta

  Reason, Many Friends

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• But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Nice, Stupid, People

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• When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Teenager, Drawing, Listening

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

  Ben Folds

  Song, Thinking, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

  Questlove

  Believe, Feel Good, Listening

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

  Eli Roth

  Gun, Iron, Rose

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

  Steve Jobs

  Listening, Library, Quantum

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• I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Writing, Listening

  "The Last Book of The Mortal Instruments Series Has Arrived, and It's Full of Juicy Lust and Betrayal". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Staying enthused about finding things; discovering new beauty in the world that can translate into music. That's the most precious sort of resource. You have to pull stuff from outside of the musical realm. Whatever muscle it is that it takes to listen to music and stay focused, in me, is really strong.

  Blake Mills

  Strong, Musical, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Writing, Thinking, Circles

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• Sometimes I can listen to music - sometimes there's no choice, especially if I'm out writing at a coffee place. But sometimes it's too distracting. If I'm listening to something I really love - I have to stop and give everything over to it. I'm listening to its structures, its melodic lines, the bass. It takes up too much of my head - in a good way.

  Paul Lisicky

  Coffee, Writing, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when I started to listen to music on my own it was around the time of the birth of rock and roll. Shortly thereafter I started to get into more blues and more traditional rootsy American music.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Kids, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Scott Preston, www.cincygroove.com. April 3, 2008.

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• I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

  Shane McCrae

  Writing, Thinking, Listening

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Song, Busting Out

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• I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

  Wayne McGregor

  Interesting, Sometimes, Used

  "Royal Ballet Live: Wayne McGregor on dance, the White Stripes and the web". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2012.

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• I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.

  Zulay Henao

  Glasses, Cooking, Kitchen

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

  Tim Hecker

  Fun, Mp3, Way

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to an audience because there's a cadence and a beat. There's a music to the language that's very important to me.

  T.C. Boyle

  Wife, Important, Cadence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing.

  Charli XCX

  Thinking, Blood, Color

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Interesting, Wife

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't work out and *not* be watching or listening to music or something. I also journal a lot. I think writing is super therapeutic. And then, hanging with my nieces and nephews. Just like baking or doing silly stuff like jumping on a trampoline, doing fun things with them, pretending I'm five with them, that makes my day.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Fun, Niece, Silly

  "From Porn to Working Out, Khloé Kardashian Thinks You Should Be 'Doing Things That Make You Happy'". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

  David Longstreth

  Way, Bigs

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.

  Alexis Taylor

  Cds, Ipods, People

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

  Dolly Parton

  Book, Technology, Phones

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• When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

  Dolly Parton

  People, George Jones

  "Parton words: Dolly dishes on tour, upcoming CD". The Arizona Republic Interview with Randy Cordova, January 26, 2014.

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