Passive Listening Quotes

There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it's a lot of commands. It's a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It's not like, 'how do you feel?'

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

I like having the radio on, that way you're challenged to listen to things that aren't your choice.

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive, problem-solving, and experimenting; not passively listening.

I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.

I'm entertained more by my own thoughts than by the thoughts of others. I don't mind answering questions. But in an exchange of conversation, I wind up being a pair of ears.

Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.

You never help anyone by being a sounding board for their problems or complaints.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

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.