Top 100 Quotes About Listen To Music
#1. I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which.
Joss Whedon
#2. If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don't have to say, 'Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.' I get to listen to music and go to work.
George Lucas
#3. I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.
Jonathan Lethem
#4. With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.
Lisa Loeb
#5. I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.
Saoirse Ronan
#6. Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.
Alex Honnold
#7. The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'
Michael Franti
#8. I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
Andrew Flintoff
#9. I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
John Legend
#10. I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.
Carrie Brownstein
#11. Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I like to dress, the way I listen to music: put it all together, and it's a great party.
Kelis
#12. I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.
Diane Paulus
#13. I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.
Michael Nesmith
#14. I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
Vikram Seth
#15. I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs.
Sharon Van Etten
#16. Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.
Graham Coxon
#18. A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.
David Lynch
#19. Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.
Mark Morris
#20. I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.
Ben Folds
#21. I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
Walton Goggins
#22. When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.
Dmitry Medvedev
#23. I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.
Tiesto
#24. I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
Dolly Parton
#25. When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.
Carlos Santana
#26. I started to listen to music and began collecting records around 1948. And it was fairly soon after that that hi-fi came about, so that it was possible to have really good sound - LPs and tapes and speaker systems. The whole thing came more or less at once.
Phill Niblock
#27. I have got to do something that makes me focus on one thing, and so I will sit and listen to music, or I will read, or I will go and make ammunition in my workshop. I have just got to keep myself busy.
David Feherty
#28. It's been a struggle to get people to come eat for fun. You know, the way they listen to music. You can do all kinds of things with music. But food - it's something people need, and that changes everything. You start playing with it, people have all sorts of reactions.
Wylie Dufresne
#29. When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.
Michael Sheen
#30. I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.
Dhani Harrison
#31. Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
David Lynch
#33. I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.
Zachary Quinto
#34. Simple people ... listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.
Elfriede Jelinek
#35. I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
Tao Lin
#36. I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
Natalia Kills
#37. I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
Olly Murs
#38. I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.
Chang-rae Lee
#39. I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.
Shane McCrae
#40. If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
James Spader
#41. When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.
Kirsten Dunst
#42. In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.
Saul Leiter
#43. If you miss the bus, miss the train, you'd be left behind. So everyone says, let's get on the train, let's get on the bus and go faster and get rich ... I just didn't like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.
Haruki Murakami
#44. I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.
Justine Bateman
#45. I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.
Dolly Parton
#46. I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen to these days is on the web or on MySpace pages, stuff like that.
Panda Bear
#47. I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.
Kanye West
#48. The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?
Britt Daniel
#49. Most people would fiercely resist the idea that they need any instruction in how to listen to music. Because we can hear, we think we can listen. But just because we can see, we don't assume we can read. Reading
Julian Johnson
#50. I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.
Ana Ivanovic
#51. When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.
Matisyahu
#52. I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
Richard Price
#53. You must be compelled by an inner force to read books, listen to music, and view films which serve only to send you spiraling deeper into the bottomless pit of frustration.
Gary Reilly
#54. Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.
Prince
#55. I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies.
Penn Badgley
#58. Listening to music and driving - that's the best way to listen to music. You just kind of zone out. Driving's so futuristic - you're barely putting in any effort, and this huge machine is pummeling down a strip of concrete.
Galcher Lustwerk
#59. I don't listen to a ton of music other than putting my show together, just because my lifestyle isn't too conducive to listening to music all the time. I like to watch basketball, and I would rather not listen to music while I'm doing that.
Doug Martsch
#60. I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
Jackson Browne
#61. I can't read, can't listen to music. I can't do anything but just sit there, waiting for morning to come.
Haruki Murakami
#62. I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed it more than sex.
Cheryl Strayed
#63. A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.
Daisaku Ikeda
#64. Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.
Tim Hecker
#65. I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to an audience because there's a cadence and a beat. There's a music to the language that's very important to me.
T.C. Boyle
#66. I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.
Amy Adams
#67. I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
Mallory Ortberg
#68. I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#69. If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
Barbra Streisand
#70. When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.
Michael Jackson
#71. While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
Jennifer Armentrout
#72. I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.
Shane McCrae
#73. I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
Vince Neil
#74. When you're feeling down ...
Smile
Stand tall, shoulder back
Compliment someone
Help someone in a big or small way
Listen to music
Clean your space
Plan your day
Do what your brain tells you can't or shouldn't
Pray (or meditate) with a focus on gratitude
Breathe
Charles F. Glassman
#75. I'm a big vinyl listener, I'm a big audiophile. I have a really nice stereo set up at home with a hi-fi and really nice turntable and it's a big deal to me to listen to music in it's purest form like that.
Butch Walker
#76. I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.
Geri Halliwell
#77. That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
Dana Spiotta
#78. I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.
Rivers Cuomo
#79. I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.
Daniel Radcliffe
#80. I knew I would have to relearn how to listen to music, and that some of the music we'd loved together I'd never be able to hear again.
Rob Sheffield
#81. I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.
Colm Toibin
#82. In my home, I listen to music; I play music: I play guitar and I play ukelele. And I swim and I ride a bike and I do all the things that everybody else does.
Charles Dance
#84. I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
Action Bronson
#85. My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.
Stanley Kubrick
#86. My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
Fleur East
#87. After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't ... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?
Tom Araya
#88. I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
Francisco Costa
#89. You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to create that.
Will Oldham
#90. Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.
Chuck Mangione
#91. I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.
Julia Kent
#92. I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
Mandy Patinkin
#93. I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.
Gerard Way
#94. Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
Alan W. Watts
#95. I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.
Devendra Banhart
#96. I like to listen to music that makes me feel a certain way - either it reminds me of something important that happened or a certain time in my life
Martin Johnson
#97. I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.
Mose Allison
#98. People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
Marsha Norman
#99. If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
Estelle
#100. Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
Kurt Vonnegut
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