Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Seriously, Palta…” He was honestly puzzled, “I haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about. What about your ears is supposed to… — M.A. George Copy Share Image
On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears,… — James Blake Copy Share Image
My ears are open to all sorts of stuff. I appreciate some of the big electro house guys.I love their music but… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
He took her in his arms right away. "I'm so sorry," he murmured in her ear. He rocked her, saying it over… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
“Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to… — Moryah DeMott Copy Share Image
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one… — Hafez Copy Share Image
Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“I pick up Dylan. He certainly takes after his father: about three-quarters of his body weight seems to be head, and three-quarters… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or… — Newton Arvin Copy Share Image
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it,… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and… — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got… — Geri Jewell Copy Share Image
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the… — Brandon Andress Copy Share Image
![“It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the…” quote by Joan Baez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b7b/joan-baez-5389_bigs_it-my-vocal-didn-t-sound-like-what-i-wan_320136.jpg)
![“With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work.” quote by Jonathan Ive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b7c/jonathan-ive-3015_chins_with-the-early-prototypes-i-held-the-pho_909561.jpg)
![“The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]” quote by Sallust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b57/sallust-4191_danger_the-man-who-is-roused-neither-by-glory-n_1194014.jpg)
