Listening to Music Quotes

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.

Some days I'm just flipping through the iPod trying to get pumped, some days I don't want to listen to anything and just focus. From game to game from day to day, whatever people do to motivate themselves, they do. I do all kinds of things.

I'm not mad into raving, to be honest. If it's not music, I'm chilling. But most of the time, it's music.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life.

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

You can’t go through life not listening to music.

We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.

Everybody likes to listen to a song because it's fun, and nobody wants to sit around and listen to 'I-really-have-to-analyze-these-lyrics' songs all the time.

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?

I love a big steak or seafood dinner, but the next day I'm running outside for miles. While of course listening to music. I have to have the music on.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.

There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

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.