#listening

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#everything #language #listening #writing

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#i #listening #long #music #rock

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#because #changes #clever #complex #deceptively

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#anybody #between #body #child #diverting

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born. ↗

— Benny Green

#almost #born #called #day #dream

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#dark #dark side #listening #music #nature

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#effect #enormous #fact #full #get

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#america #any #broadcast #get #happening

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me. ↗

— Prince Harry

#around #being #bit #boring #boring people

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#asleep #books #cartoons #comic #comic books