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Author:Georg Brandes

“Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.”

Want Logic Wake Up Prepared Hearing Hearing Things

Author:Greil Marcus

“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”

Men World Looks Happens Life Is Forget Five Century Essentials Twenties Silent Western Hearing Absence Noise Abstract Beast Look Up Twenty Five

Book:Noise: The Political Economy of Music

Source: Noise: The Political Economy of Music

“It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.”

Firsts Important Used Hearing Labels Skeptical

Author:Darius Rucker

“Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.”

Names New York Hearing Seattle Knicks

Author:Patrick Ewing

“You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.”

People Ifs Knows Said I Can Able Actors Difficult Lines Practice Hearing Aids Crafts What If Right Time Hiv Hearing Aids

Author:Leslie Nielsen

“When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.”

Writing Ideas Stuff Brain Four Nice Fingers Hearing Touching Contrast Limbs Feedback Involving Converting Drumming

Author:Michael Azerrad

“A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.”

I Can Shows Sound Cities Situation Creative Imagine Walking Sight Killing Hearing Agendas Unfamiliar Fertile Days Off Time To Kill Sight And Sound

Author:Andrew Bird

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

Important Enjoy Sound Voice Impossible Important Things Hearing

Author:Annie Baker

“If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.”

Ifs Figures Hearing

Author:Bill Bruford

“The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.”

Firsts Remember Radio Hearing Messiah Choir Handel Choral Music

Author:Dave Brubeck

“Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.”

Firsts Persons Matter Voice Hearing First Person Narrators

Author:James Lee Burke

“There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!”

Way Audience Laughing Hearing Joyful

Author:Kelly Bishop

“You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.”

Knows Long Kids Remember Parent Black Growing Up Growing Hearing Islands Neighborhood Racist Long Island Black Family

Author:Lorraine Bracco

“Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.”

Ifs Writing Moving Sound Poet Listening Universal Creator Hearing Verses Hearing Music Very Moving

Author:Roberto Benigni

“Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.”

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Author:Stephanie Beacham

“Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.”

People Economy Growing Listening Politician Hearing Constituents Prioritize Madison Back To Work

Author:Tammy Baldwin

“Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.”

Firsts Age Teacher Plans College Becoming Dad Training My Dad Hearing Singers Coming Of Age Houston Plan B Whitney Teacher Training

Author:Toni Braxton

“And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.”

World Asks Voice Views Saws Heard Possibility Hearing Dialogue Opening Attempting

Author:Ulrich Beck

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

Voice My Own Machines Hearing Answering Machines

Author:China Chow

“In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.”

Knows Way Doe Able School Stuff Acting Too Much Information College Hearing Dialect Too Much Information Phonetics

Author:Eliza Coupe

“You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.”

Book Stories Reading Hearing Ptsd

Author:Dale Archer

“Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.”

Hearing Witch Senate Hunts Witch Hunt Joe Mccarthy

Book:A Book

Source: A Book

“The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.”

Trying Play Song Term Hearing

Author:Jimmy Chamberlin

“It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.”

Ifs I Can Matter Seeing Style Fit Hearing

Author:Joe Cocker

“What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument.”

Ifs Wells Reason Jobs Creation Republican Concern Argument Impact Hearing Employers Job Creation

Author:Susan Collins

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

Thinking Reading Gains Hearing Love Of Reading

Author:James Dashner

“I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.”

Thinking Should Littles Left Sides Listening Harder Hearing Electorate

Author:Jeff Daniels

“Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.”

Firsts Two Sometimes Sound Months Exciting Hearing Torture Installation

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.”

Used Voice My Own Hearing

Author:Billy Eckstine

“Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.”

Way Persons Feelings Energy Language Information Type Hearing Symbolic

Author:John Edward

“Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.”

People Looks Littles Whole Strange Taste Extraordinary Hearing Whole Life Senses Factual Eyesight

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.”

Lost Birth Percent Difficulty Hearing

Author:Lou Ferrigno

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

Hard Father Childhood Hearing

Author:Lou Ferrigno

“And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.”

Should Years Matter Eight Hearing Sensitive

Author:Louis J. Freeh

“I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.”

Results Movement Hearing

Author:Suzanne Farrell

“I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.”

Ifs Knows Mean Play Bigs Speak Differences Listening Conversation Hearing One On One

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.”

People Littles Stories Asks Parent Boys Grew Grew Up Hearing Resistance France Occupation Nazi

Author:Jacques Audiard

“My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.”

Country Stories Military Dad Bases Army Meetings My Dad Soldier Hearing Singers Grandpa Military Bases Country Singer

Author:Dierks Bentley

“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.”

Ifs Term Religious Gay Hearing Tolerance Intolerance Pathetic Politically Correct

Author:Rupert Everett

“Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.”

Nature Seeing Hearing Tasting

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.”

Christian Names Ought Sight Forgiving Hearing

Author:Jane Austen

“If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.”

Ifs Way Certain Individual Type Negative Oneself Hearing Noise Accurate Sellers Reinforcement Cacophony

Author:James Chanos

“My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.”

Should Dream Wanted Jobs Past Remember Mother Should Have Hearing Aspiration Multiple Always Working Multiple Jobs

Author:Puff Daddy

“I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?”

Want Dies Hearing Peter

Author:Peter Fonda

“People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.”

People Thinking Records Too Much Hearing Miles Mp3

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.”

Men Two Able House Hours Cutting Fans Middle Internet Exciting Clubs Appearance Hearing Reaching Lakes Texas Reach Out Offering Tickets Correspondence Maverick

Author:Josh Henderson

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

Children Grew Walking Grew Up Hearing Fascination Undead

Author:Katherine Helmond

“Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.”

Made Ideas Soul Sometimes Shows Church Boys Careers Car Listening Grew Band Grew Up Singing Blind Hearing Singers Show Business Alabama Singing In Church

Author:Daryl Hall

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