364 Quotes About Ears

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

A team like the Colts, they have the lead most of the time, a big one, so they get to pin their ears back and go. We haven't been playing with a lot of big leads.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.