“Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'” TryingKindSoundRealizingListeningRidiculousHeyDevelopingEmulate Author:Alex Borstein
“(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.” IfsFirstsHas BeensBookSecretEducationLearningStudyListeningSittingDevelopingProfessorsLecturesNotebookSecret LifeOrderliness Author:Stefan Zweig
“The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking!” PeopleThinkingWayWantShouldCountryListeningCircumstancesWalkingDevelopingArrogantCan NotHeadingsDictating Author:Eduardo Galeano
“Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.” HumansWorstInformationListeningFlowOrganizationPoliceCommunismDevelopingCharacteristicsDevicesStoppingTriggers Author:Lech Walesa
“As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingTermStyleListeningEasierGuitarTechniqueDevelopingEvolveSongwritersListening To Music Author:Ian Anderson
“I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.” NeedsBelieveArtImportantAbleI BelieveListeningBecomingElementsMusicianEarsImportanceMusicalDevelopingComponentsDecipher Author:Steve Vai
“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.” IfsWaySoundDealsMusicCuttingListeningEgoEarsMusicalRefuseDeveloping Author:John Cage