#hearing

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#across #came #could #find #first

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.' ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#every #every time #hearing #i #instead

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#age #although #becoming #college #coming

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#either #give #hearing #heartbroken #just

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#hearing #i #i can #into #like

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #certain #day #drown #every

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters. ↗

— David Crane

#complimentary #designers #enjoyed #game #games

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#hearing #helped #i #invent #makes

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#appears #because #been #complicated #figure

In those long-ago days I saw a daughter with a disability. Now I see a beautiful, engaging person with a different ability, one that has blessed her with extra gifts and special perceptions. ↗

— Lee Woodruff

#life-lessons #beauty