The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

“There is no greater path than the act of listening.”

— Bryant McGill

If there's anything I have learned, it's to sort of be sensitive to what - to how much - to how creative the act…

— DJ /rupture

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the…

— Walter Murch

Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

— Bob Nelson

“There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a part of…

— Bryant McGill

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

— Max Lucado

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

— John Cage

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song…

— Garth Brooks

I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.

— Javed Jaffrey

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

— Barbara Kolb

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life…

— John Powell