“I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.” MomentsKidsFiveFourListeningGrewGrew UpSingingPianoConceptionListening To Music Author:K. D. Lang
“As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.” MenYearsFirstsFactsPastUnderstandingTakenSawsFourListeningUnderstoodFemaleTwentiesMalesGlassesAssumptionPowerlessnessMagnifyingMagnifying GlassFalse Assumptions Author:Warren Farrell
“I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.” PeopleThinkingPlayHomeFourGenerationsListeningGuitarTrackDiscussionDescriptionSongwritingEngineeringListening To MusicMy Generation Author:Sufjan Stevens
“The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio.” YearsFirstsWantedSongPiecesFourWonderfulListeningFirst TimeRadioBoxesFour YearsAmazing ThingsRailroads Author:Johnny Cash
“For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word.... I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time” FirstsWholeGivenStuffRecordsFourListeningTenKissingEgoDirtyBowieDirty Words Author:Bernard Fanning
“I have physical problems with listening to reggae. It's weird, I don't know why. It doesn't fit the way my heart pounds, and I feel very bad when I hear it. I have a neighbor--she's a waitress who comes home every night at four in the morning and she plays reggae very loud. I hate that. I can't sleep and I can't wake up either to that music.” KnowsWayFeelsHeartI CanPlayProblemHomeNightHateSleepMorningFourListeningMy HeartFitI HateWake UpNeighborLoudPoundsComing HomeEvery NightWaitressReggaeCan't SleepI Can't Sleep Author:Nina Persson
“When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.” ThinkingYearsKindI CanDifferentWantedSchoolRememberGivenSexEnjoySidesDarkFiveFourListeningMoonBandNoiseDifferent KindsFifthCdsDark SideMy BirthdayPistolsHendrixProdigiesDifferent Kinds Of MusicSex Pistols Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner
“In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my guitar. I had decided after listening to my last four or five albums that my biggest weakness musically was melody. the reason I had been singing in a monotone over the chord patterns in my songs was that I never practiced doing melodies.” FeelsWritingReasonLastsSongMorningFiveFourListeningSingingWeaknessDecidedGuitarPatternsAlbumsMelodyAfternoonSay AnythingEnd TimesEssaysChordsSpend TimeDoing Me Author:Iggy Pop
“I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.” PeoplePlayHomeSchoolSongFourListeningComfortI RealizedRhythmChordsMexicanInappropriateUkuleleRhythm And Blues Author:Joan Baez
“When I started playing music at East Tennessee State University I would sit on a stool with a tip jar in front of me and play four hours a night at a college bar called Quarterback's Barbecue. I wasn't thinking about doing it for a living. I was just making enough money to go to Taco Bell every day. People were eating chips, drinking beer and not listening to me. I'd had three or four years of people ignoring me, and I'd kind of gotten used to it.” PeopleThinkingYearsKindStatesEnoughPlayUsedNightThreeHoursFourFrontsCollegeListeningEatingDrinkingUniversityEastBarsBeerFour YearsBellsChipsJarsPlaying MusicQuarterbackTennesseeBarbecueDrinking BeerStoolsTacosTaco BellIgnore MeEast Tennessee Author:Kenny Chesney