“Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” AbleInterestingLevelsAttentionParticularListeningAccommodateAmbientAmbient Music Author:Brian Eno
“Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.” IfsWellsPlayInterestingStageListeningMethodNotesGuitarAverageHelpfulCopiesSoloGuitaristSaxophoneGuitar Solos Author:Ritchie Blackmore
“I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.” PeopleFeelsTogetherFeltEnjoyHurtInterestingActingListeningSceneConnectedCharlotte Author:Kirsten Dunst
“I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.” SometimesPlayDreamTogetherSongAnswersInterestingRocksListeningGrewConversationLateGrew UpPoliceStartingListsSurrenderTricksIntenseStayingHanging OutPunkGuitaristPunk RockDichotomyUkuleleRamonesDissectingTutorial Author:Eddie Vedder
“I only ever really follow the music, that's what I'm about, I don't think about it too much. I just wanted to make a piece to sleep through, to sort of explore that sleeping space as a listening space and to have a different encounters between our listening minds or hearing minds and music. I think that's really interesting. After that I feel I've done my job.” ThinkingFeelsMindDifferentDoneWantedJobsSleepSpaceInterestingToo MuchPiecesListeningHearingEncountersReally Interesting Author:Max Richter
“I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.” IfsThinkingWayWantCharacterInterestingAliveListeningActivePassiveSpyInteresting Characters Author:Tom Hiddleston
“If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.” IfsI CanCan DoInterestingListeningBusyWorriedRelevantDiscourseCdsListening To Others Author:Stephen Malkmus
“There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.” WayMindInterestingRichListeningListening To Music Author:Tod Machover
“Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too critical about it. But I also feel like I wanted to say something a bit different from just being a musician and singing about yourself. Ultimately, that's not really interesting to me. Even when I was a kid, I was interested in observing people and maybe making my own stories. That kind of reflects in my music.” PeopleKindDifferentKidsSongInterestingListeningMusicianSingingLazyGet AwaySongwritingAbout YourselfObservingReally Interesting Author:Steve Gunn
“I support people if they are called to be active and protesting, resisting, working for restoration or, for more just political conversation. I also support everyone in listening to each other. We're at a very interesting and disturbing time in terms of our civil discourse. And yet always, in disturbance, things are shook up and that shaking can lead to deeper maturity and a deeper discourse. May it be so.” PeoplePoliticalTermInterestingSupportListeningMaturityVery InterestingShaking Author:Gangaji
“When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.” TryingSometimesRunningInterestingSituationListeningTrackThings Happen Author:Brian Eno
“We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.” InterestingListeningRap Author:Adam Yauch
“Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems, ever says, "This is a great book but I didn't like it." Taking a little time to think about why this might be has been very liberating.” PeopleThinkingBookInterestingNovelListeningVery InterestingLiberatingTime To ThinkGreat Book Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people really might starve. In America, my Jordanian father spent decades cooking professionally and pursuing his dream of a restaurant, and it was one of the central ways that he explained himself to his American children. Even though he's a passionate talker, he has a hell of a time with listening. His cooking gave him a way of having a conversation - which was a really interesting thing for a writer to look at.” PeopleChildrenDreamFatherParentInterestingHellChildhoodListeningCookingPassionateObsessionReally Interesting Author:Diana Abu-Jaber
“I've always found it interesting when I'm the person in the audience feeling mismatched by what I've seen or heard. The shows I've taken the most from I may have not liked while I was there listening to it but, maybe an hour later, there's suddenly a lightening bolt out of the blue: "Oh, I'd see them again."” FeelingsHoursInterestingAudienceTakenListening Author:Alexis Taylor
“I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.” IfsBelieveHumansWellsMayI CanSelfOpportunityInterestingClassSacrificeHuman NatureListeningHabitCircumstancesSickIntelligentInstanceFollyAttachmentHeroismVolumeFortitudeChamberMost InterestingResignationArdentGreat OpportunityDisinterestedAnne Elliot Author:Jane Austen
“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.” ThinkingWayPersonsRealHappensFoundDifferencesInterestingAliveWillingListeningEnormousRadicalPairsWillingnessPretendingWay Of ThinkingFluidMonologuesDueling Author:Alan Alda