Bach Quote by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to…

— Lewis Thomas

When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to…

— Steven Spielberg

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the…

— Mark Nepo

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

— Tod Machover

Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.

— Michael Nichols

If we're not listened to, then that doesn't create a desire inside us to listen to others. Societally, we don't value it.

— Julian Treasure

Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?

— Mardy Grothe

Between every record, we all split off in our own world and we all end up listening to usually pretty different music on our…

— Ben Gibbard

Listening is the essence of anything.

— David Lyons

As artists, we evolve, and certain music speaks to us a certain way. I've always subscribed to: whatever the music is telling me, that's…

— B-Real

We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.

— Michael Arden

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood