Sue Townsend Quotes

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I don't think I really bond with other people over music. That's not unique to music for me, either. I feel that way about film, television, art, everything. I read a book alone, so why wouldn't I listen to music alone?

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

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 just love music in general. I've been a fan of all different kinds of music since I can remember.

I don't like to use the word 'fans;' I call them 'Dick Dale music lovers.'

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.

I'm not really a music guy.

I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.

'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.

God-dang-it, country music is my heart.

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

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

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

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.

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.