“When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.” PlaySimpleHeardListeningConnectionsDown AndHip HopHipsHopsBlues Music Author:Dan Auerbach
“My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.” SchoolMotherValuesStrongSidesChurchPerfectWeekListeningAuthorityEatingSittingDown AndRaisedConservativeSundaySitting DownSunday SchoolMethodistsAttendanceGoing To ChurchStrong Values Author:Jonathan Groff
“I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.” ListeningEarsDown AndHighwaysDylanBlonde Author:John Lennon
“I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like when things like music come out and you're listening to a song and you have experiences with art or phenomena that supersede your simple relationship with them as just a piece of art. They're more than that. That's just what those quote are for me. They're big, they're important.” WantWritingLooksKindArtImportantBigsSongSimpleForgetPiecesListeningDown And Author:Justin Vernon
“If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good which I had intended to do to it.” IfsDoeTurnsEvilNationsVoiceBreakListeningSightDown AndPlantKingdomsBreaking DownRepentPluck Author:Jeremiah
“[Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg, Berg and Webern? Are you listening to that music and what do you feel about it?" These were the conversations that he was having. And he also said, what he learned from Charlie Parker was, not that he studied with him in the formal sense, is that the first thing that Charlie Parker would always ask was, "Did you eat today?".” ThinkingFeelsFirstsSaidWholeTodaySchoolAsksListeningConversationBirdDown AndWoodsFormalCharlieSchoenbergWebern Author:Jon Gordon
“Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence mechanism down and am open to receiving that energy, that gives me clarity as at that time, you are listening to your heart. The heart shows you the direction in life. The mind exists only to execute your emotion.” GivingMindHeartStatesShowsEnergyReligiousEmotionListeningGratitudeSittingGive MeDown AndClarityMechanismReceivingDefenceListen To Your HeartDefence Mechanism Author:Arjun Rampal