“I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.” ThinkingWritingSongTermListeningAlbumsTricksMore TimeDeliveryWriting SongsWordplay Author:Kendrick Lamar
“People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.” PeopleLittlesI CanTermQualityListeningHigherTerribleComputerHearingGet BackSpeakersListening To MusicHearing MusicQuality Music Author:James Taylor
“I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals and people, which is against the spirit of Islam. While I stand by the truths that he spoke, I must condemn in the strongest terms the manner in which those truths were represented.” PeopleMeanSpiritFoundIndividualTermListeningSpeechIslamSpokesStrongestMockerySpiritedMaliciousMean Spirited Author:Louis Farrakhan
“As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.” PeopleKindLongPlayHelpingSpiritValuesStrongTermLeadershipQualityRolesParticularListeningCreatingFemaleIdealsLong TermSpheresEfficientSplitsDominantBeing HumanIntegrationHumaneReconcileAnalyticsAptitudeNegotiatingZestLeadership QualitiesAmbiance Book:The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
“The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement.” ThinkingTermImagineMovementListeningAreasActiveListening To MusicMotor Author:Oliver Sacks
“I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.” ThinkingI CanHardTermPleasureListeningInstinctHearingHard TimesListenersJust ListenUtilitarianHearing Music Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?” FeelsBelieveSometimesTermRecordsFansListeningDon't BelieveFeel GoodPhasesBusinessmanListening To MusicMusic FansBad MusicGood Records Author:Questlove
“As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingTermStyleListeningEasierGuitarTechniqueDevelopingEvolveSongwritersListening To Music Author:Ian Anderson
“Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.” KnowsFirstsCertainTermPiecesListeningModelsFirst Time Author:Paul Lansky
“Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.” ThinkingProcessTermListeningApproachCarefulGenerosityAgendasCollaboration Author:Eyvind Kang
“Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.” KidsForceTermEffectsListeningCreatingPassionate Author:Phil Keoghan
“We think of music as this substance that flows - you turn on the tap, and there it is, streaming off your computer - but that's not how we evolved as a species. We evolved to listen to each other, and the reason we're able to listen to music in the terms is talking about is because we're really good at listening to each other. But this kind of technology has allowed us to forget that music is the sound of each other.” ThinkingKindReasonTermForgetTechnologyListeningComputerMusic IsListening To MusicStreaming Author:Vijay Iyer
“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
“I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically illiterate. But I have a pretty serendipitous approach to it.” TryingMeanTermInfluenceListeningListening To MusicIlliterate Author:Carey Mercer