29 Quotes About Listening-to-music
- Author Thomas De Quincey
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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
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- Author Greil Marcus
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[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.
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- Author Gemma Arterton
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I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.
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- Author Jake Bugg
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As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
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- Author Lincoln Child
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I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
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- Author Phil Collins
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I don't really listen to music.
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- Author Kirsten Dunst
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When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.
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- Author Brian Eno
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I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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- Author Brett Favre
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You know I used to listen to music a lot more.
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