Ear Quotes

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It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of… — Todd Rundgren
It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it… — H. L. Mencken
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which… — Donald Fagen
Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by… — Charles Caleb Colton
The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the… — Robert Dodsley
Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As… — Hartley Coleridge
Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to… — John Keats
You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more… — Anderson Cooper
I feel like I always had an ear. I have the ability and the gift to hear a song and really play it in a… — Jeremih
As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately. — Michael Connelly
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. — Robert Frost
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. — Thomas Fuller
Great music is in the ear of the beholder. — Noel Gallagher
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort… — Richard Le Gallienne
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. — Judy Garland
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in… — Edward Gibbon
I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging. — Kathy Griffin
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to… — Che Guevara
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. — Joan Didion

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