Listening Quote by Florent Schmitt

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm…

— Matt Tong

“Hello, pineapples,’ he whispered. He bent his head toward his lap and punctured the can, listening closely. The pineapples whispered back. They told him…

— Hugh Howey

I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's…

— Megan Whalen Turner

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

— Sue Grafton

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

— Igor Stravinsky

You put a piece of music out, and it's not in your hands anymore, and that's cool with me.

— El-P

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

— Lola Kirke

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

— Anonymous

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write…

— Michael Scott

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

— Herbert

Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions…

— Tod Machover