“I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.” SelfSongListeningSingingConsciousSelf Conscious Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them.” TryingFallBreakListeningHabitMusicianConscious Author:Jerry Garcia
“If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.” PeopleIfsNeedsEnoughJobsVoiceFocusListeningConsciousHip HopHipsHopsActivistRapperPlatformsDope Author:Talib Kweli
“My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.” IfsKindFilmHouseStuffBrainListeningConsciousHanging OutMailListening To Music Author:Dominic Monaghan
“I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.” WorldWayWantLongSaidDreamFacesUnderstandingLossImpossibleListeningConsciousFinishedArguingDialogueImpulseI Want YouPausesIrresistibleSeemingIntervals Book:Interview with the Vampire Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.” EyeUniverseListeningPerceptionGloryConsciousEarsHarmonyWitnessMagnificence Author:Alan Watts
“The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.” IfsFeelsWritingKindPersonsMomentsLyingStarsSleepSkyMiddleEmotionalListeningDiseaseConsciousWindowVictimBlindFilledNarrativeDawnThrownBottlesAfternoonAirplaneTrappedBedroomMidnightInsomniaNeighbourCokeAmbulance Author:Michael Chabon