Ann Beattie Quotes

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

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?

I don't listen to my own music at home.

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

I don't listen to the albums that I make, and I don't listen to a lot of music as a whole.

A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.

I mean, I love buying albums, I'm obsessed, but now you just click 'add', don't you? And when do you actually listen to anything? You know, unless you're in the car or you've got time to do that, it's just not the same world any more in terms of concentration.

I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track.

As a power listener who listens to music between 10 and 14 hours a day and who always has his earphones and MP3 player with him, convenience really means a lot to me.

I don't listen to music. I know it's weird, and I have no explanation for that. But I never do.

There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.

I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

In '77 there was no Internet, there was no Twitter or Facebook, and I think that, without being some old git who hates anything new, people's attention spans are too short. Back then you had 'Top Of The Pops' and 'Melody Maker,' and you had to make the effort to go to a show so that you absorbed the culture of music.

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.