#hearing

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#also #art #attention #carefully #classical

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#bark #gestures #hear #hearing #listen

I have selective hearing. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#i #selective

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#feel #heard #hearing #i #i always

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it. ↗

— Miles Davis

#been #comes #gift #hearing #i

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story. ↗

— John Hope

#feels #hearing #old story #story #untold

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately. ↗

— John Edward

#feeling #frame #hearing #i #i see

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter? ↗

— Peter Fonda

#hearing #i #peter #set #those

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#closed #eight #hearing #hearings #held

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#choices #each #environment #feel #going