Ear Quotes

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Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound… — Friedrich Schiller
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's… — J B Morton
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive… — Robert Towne
I donâ€™t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it… — Ben Bradlee
Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice… — Mabel Collins
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. — Ihab Hassan
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and… — Lara St. John
I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I… — Casey Stengel
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… — Anna Quindlen
If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your… — Steve Vai
...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from an instrument it… — Bennie Maupin
Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things. — Edmond Jabes
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is… — Pete Fountain
Tchaikovskyâ€™s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. — Eduard Hanslick
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it… — Marcel Achard
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. — Malcolm De Chazal
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know. — Dennis Weaver
I mean thereâ€™s a certain finality about a movie, when itâ€™s done itâ€™s done â€“ that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that… — Tracy Letts
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. — Francesco Guicciardini

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