First Hearing Quotes
- Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. — Elizabeth Goudge
- Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing. — Sergei Prokofiev
- Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used… — Charles Ives
- Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need to do depends… — Jeffrey R. Holland
- A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said. — Niels Bohr
- Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going… — Toni Braxton
- One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. — Gioachino Rossini
- One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time. — Gioacchino Rossini