Best 476 quotes in «hearing quotes» category

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

I don't like working in a studio, at all. I just prefer to be on location, rather than hearing the bells of the studio going off. It's like being in Las Vegas, where no one knows the time and there are no windows.

I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

I encourage people to ask whatever question you're most interested in hearing the answer to.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.

If we have trouble hearing Him, He will faithfully work in our lives until we are pointed in the direction He wants us to go.

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my potential. I had to be better than the average person to succeed.

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

If you’re not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing.

I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends with, like Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin, and hearing a first-person account was pretty incredible.

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

I have selective hearing.

I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

I have never yet failed to get a hearing (with a Hindu) if I talk to them about forgiveness of sins and peace and rest in your heart.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah." I think there's something wrong with my headphones.

I knew then that I had never understood what humans called love. But if that was anything close to the power you held over me, then no wonder they searched for it so passionately." I reached out and pulled him into bed with me. "You're going to be late." "Why ?" "Because after hearing that I can't let you leave until I've had my fill. Get naked, Dankmar.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men.

I like having a song in my head that's never been heard and then going into a studio and recording it and hearing it exist in the world. It's a magical part. Filled with wonder.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.