First Heard Quotes
46 First Heard quotes by 43 unique authors
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The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
— Unknown Author
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I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard…
— Jill Scott
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When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry." New Orleans. I'm so sorry. That's not the way it…
— Chris Rose
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As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind…
— Samuel R. Delany
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But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked like. I thought…
— Loretta Chase
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I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a…
— Dashiell Hammett
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When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means,…
— Francine Pascal
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When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was…
— Hugh Laurie
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades -…
— Daniel Breaker
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I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
— Hannah Kent
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It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a…
— Stjepan Hauser
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When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first…
— Deborah Cox
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages,…
— Isaac Hayes
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Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a…
— Chick Corea
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Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard…
— Tim Meadows
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When I first heard of this band I was like I either have to be in this band or destroy it cause its so good.
— Joey Jordison
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I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in…
— Reed Hastings
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I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got…
— Miles Davis
Who Wrote These First Heard Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 46 First Heard Quotes, led by these top contributors: