“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.” FirstsBigsEyeFatherSoundRecordsPlayerListeningGrewBandGrew UpEarsJazzCaughtBrownIllinoisTenorsColtraneBrownies Author:Meshell Ndegeocello
“I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.” FeelsPlayerListening Author:Rebecca Lobo
“So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.” PlayUsedPlayerListeningEarsInstrumentsJazzBassBass Players Author:Miroslav Vitous
“The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.” IfsKnowsTryingHoursPlayerListeningGeniusMarkPianoConsistencyNaive Author:David Luiz
“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.” KnowsBigsSeemsAmericaYoungWhiteRecordsPlayerBrotherListeningBandJazzSouthSingersMy BrotherSouth AfricaDukesSaxophoneKittiesNinaVocalistJazz BandRecord Players Author:Miriam Makeba
“I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.” YearsYoungNightStudyRecordsSawsPlayerListeningSingingLoudRelaxDozenHornsOne NightMicrophonesLester Young Author:Marvin Gaye
“I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me” PeopleShouldI CanPlayerFansMediaListeningWasteIntelligentClubsMy TimeShould ICrapWasting My Time Author:Fabio Capello
“(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.” StillsSpeakForceVoiceEconomyTakenPlayerSeriousListeningEuropeWeakAffairInternationalPopulationReputationGiantsDesperateBritainExceptionCurrencyDiplomacyAgeingArmed ForcesShrinkingQuestionableSluggishProtectionismInternational Affairs Author:Margaret Thatcher
“If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from the '60s and the '70s - who the guitar player is, who the drummer is, who the producer was, what studio it was recorded in. That's how I grew up listening to music. We bought albums. We read the liner notes. It was important to know the whole history behind it.” IfsKnowsWantStillsImportantWholeBehindsPlayerListeningGrewGrew UpNotesGuitarTrackAlbumsStudiosProducersBuyingJapanListening To MusicDrummerGuitar PlayerVinyl Author:Lenny Kravitz
“If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say Wes Montgomery has more substance than others. I find myself listening to the older players. You see one bar of theirs and you can get one hundred more licks out of it.” IfsPlayerListeningHundredScalesBarsSubstancePhrasesVariationMontgomery Author:Emily Remler
“I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.” PlayStudyPlayerPerspectiveListeningGrewBandGrew UpGuitarExpectedPianoComposerGuitar PlayerStudying Music Author:Daniel Rossen
“I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.” KnowsTryingMeanI CanPlayFunnySoundBlackWhiteRecordsPlayerListeningLet MeToneTrumpetsJust Listen Author:Miles Davis
“I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke. He is the most brilliant guitar player from right here in Wilmington, DE.” SometimesYoungEnjoyPlayerListeningGuitarBrilliantBellsGuitar PlayerDukesTime Goes ByWilmington Author:David Bromberg
“My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio. The feeling I had listening to his work was almost carnal, so to actually play for him was earth-shattering for me.” ChildrenPlayFeelingsDreamEarthPlayerListeningBrownRaysOscarsBassShatteringBass PlayersTrios Author:Diana Krall
“I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.” MenBelieveWellsKindCountryMovingMotherPlayerHe ManListeningLoversDadJazzMy DadRadioAll KindsGet UpClockPianoGrandmotherMy GrandmotherAlarmsMake BelieveBallroomMistyAlarm ClocksYiddish Author:Richie Havens
“I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.” StuffWonderPlayerListeningGrewSixGrew UpDetroitOhioOlder Sister Author:Boots Riley
“In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.” SchoolStuffPlayerListeningHigh SchoolJazzNerdMonkHornsBudPussy Author:Bill Orcutt
“I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow piano players, I feel more of a connection to , now that I'm using the acoustic.” ThinkingFeelsWellsFoundLeftPlayerListeningConnectionsPianoHornsAcoustics Author:Bill Orcutt
“I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.” KindCoursesSidesPlayerListeningGuitarMetalsGuitar PlayerMaidensPlaying GuitarMetallica Author:John Petrucci
“I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players.” ThinkingSpaceAudiencePlayerListeningSittingFocusedExploringAmbient Author:Pauline Oliveros
“There are these sounds that come from outside that work really well if you're listening. If you're not listening, if you're blocking them out, then you don't get it. You don't get the merger of what the players are doing with everything, listening to everything.” IfsWellsSoundPlayerListeningBlockMergers Author:Pauline Oliveros
“I saw a survey and it is that NFL fans are fed up with listening to players talk about politics.” SawsPlayerFansListeningNflFedsSurveysFed Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a track probably from 1980 - somewhere around there - that doesn't actually have any electronic instruments, no drum machines, nothing. Just a drummer and a piano player and they're playing this house music, but they're actually playing it. I really love that aesthetic and wanted to bring that into the album.” HousePlayerListeningTrackAestheticDrummer Author:Katie Stelmanis
“I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.” KidsSongHousePlayerRocksListeningGrewDadGrew UpStandardsTheaterMusicalMy DadTraditionalPianoExposedRock N RollAlleysTinMusical TheaterPiano MusicPlayer PianoIrish MusicTin Pan Alley Author:John C. Reilly