#listening

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#badly #either #hear #listening #lying

It's about listening first, then selling. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#first #listening #selling #then

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#almost #bengali #classical #classical music #european

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music. ↗

— Jerry Reed

#earth #hard #listening #most #most powerful

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is. ↗

— Lou Reed

#best #compass #else #i #idea

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#listening #make #more #much #observation

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good. ↗

— David Johansen

#good #house #i #like #listening

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening. ↗

— Tom Jones

#happening #hear #home #i #i always

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.' ↗

— Alicia Keys

#admit #block #i #kids #listening

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious. ↗

— Kimbra

#choir #express #far #guitar #hobby