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“The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.”

Source: Nightmares & Dreamscapes

“I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.”

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Author:Gerard Way

“My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.”

Water My Own Listening Grew Grew Up Musical Miles Backgrounds Composition Rama Muddy Coltrane

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they're with me in my apartment. So if I'm listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I'm feeling, it resonates even more that we're having a real, actual conversation.”

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Author:Grace Helbig

“When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.”

Knows Way Feels Moving My Own Rocks Listening Bears Following My Way Climbs Bells Packs Tricky Gears Leading On

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.”

Years May Dream Growth My Own Listening Commitment

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.”

Thinking Want Wells My Own Influence Century Poet Listening Forgiving British Poetic Associates 20th Century Brevity

Author:David Starkey

“I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while.”

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Author:Grimes

“I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Writing Long Might Turns My Own Know How Listening Determined Sentences Speed Enormous Tape Recorders Speaking And Writing

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.”

Soul My Own Listening Hurrying

Author:Mary Oliver

“I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.”

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Author:Ne-Yo

“When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.”

“One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.”

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Author:Ed Droste

“I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.”

People My Own Study Listening Judgment Currents Checks

Author:Ledisi

“I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.”

My Own Listening My Own Life Levers

Author:Glenn Beck

“I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.”

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Author:Alan Robert

“I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.”

Mind Long Made My Own Listening Long Time Tone Exploration Sensations

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.”

People My Own Listening Intuition Sheets Listening To Others Sheet Music

Author:Brian May

“I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.”

Joy My Own Listening

Author:George Michael

“Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.”

Book Wanted Reading Sound My Own Listening Fascinating Format

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”

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Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Persons Said My Own Doubt Humour Listening My Way

Book:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar

Source: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar

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