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More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

— Pat Metheny

If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.

— Tony Bennett

Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.

— Chris Murray

Timing is important with music.

— Jadakiss

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

— Sid Caesar

I feel like I wasn't making music that meant anything to me until I was 26 years old, so I'm realizing that sometimes it…

— Kenny Beats

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

— Robert Plant

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same…

— Evan Parker

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

— Richard Powers

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

— Gordon Getty

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary…

— Nigel Gibson

What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So…

— JD Era