#listening

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. ↗

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amount #audience #communicating #denying #exist

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#asking #doing #eight #how #i

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

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#exercising #hearing #hiking #i #like

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times. ↗

— Burning Spear

#listening #more #music #people #protection

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too. ↗