Hearing Quotes
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I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
Brian Wilson
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There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.
Alexander the Great
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There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
Plato
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Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.
W. J. T. Mitchell
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.
Bill Frisell
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It's a big step forward for us, just to have a hearing.
Martha Scott
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In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.
J. J. Johnson
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I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
Sophocles
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I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.
Barack Obama
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Man, it's a disaster down there, ... Everything you're hearing about it is pretty much how it is.
Anthony Collins
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On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.
C.P. Cavafy
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
Saint Augustine
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz
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I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'
Lady Gaga
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Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
William Ames
William Ames
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I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
