#listening

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs. ↗

— Anne Northup

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It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind. ↗

— Debbi Peterson

#amazing #blows #cadillac #comes #corner

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. ↗

— Henry Reed

#chemical #chemical reactions #hearing #listening #only

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#learn #listening #lot #out #you

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. ↗

— Robert Smith

#i #listening #looking #my time #rather

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#feeling #head #i #instance #like

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#ever #everything #find #hear #i

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#car #great #i #i love #interrupted

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening. ↗

— Frankie Valli

#early morning #half #i #listening #low

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived! ↗

— Alan Vega

#away #because #been #blows #coltrane