29 Quotes About Listening-to-music

Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure

[Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it shrivel up and rot away. For some, a spinning record opened up the possibility that one might say anything, in any voice, with any face, the singer's mask now a sign of mystery.

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

I don't really listen to music.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.