Greil Marcus Quotes

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

People aren't hearing all the music.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I like any music I can feel.

I like music when it makes you feel.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say.

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what you see.

People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing it - they're enjoying it. It's like listening to any other style of music. It's saying something to you, and you kind of just absorb it.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.