Music Listener Quotes
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Music Listener Quotes & Sayings
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I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.
— Erykah Badu
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.
— James Mercer
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.
— Edgard Varese
Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.
— Marvin Minsky
A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
— Karl Barth
As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.
— Chaz Bundick
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
— A.R. Rahman
I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
— Dee Dee Ramone
Music affected him as women's talking did, when there was no interceding in it. He was an instructor, not a listener.
— John Updike
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
— Carson McCullers
Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.
— Paul Lansky
It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.
— Charles Bukowski
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
— Jimmy Buffett
Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
— W.A. Mathieu
Songs are as sad as the listener.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.
— Jim Sullivan
He had a feel for silence, for leading to an unsounded note the listener yearned for ...
— Annie Proulx
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick ... maker.
— Joshua Homme
The more music you make, the better listener you become.
— Graham English
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.
— Richard Strauss
To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.
— Paul Rodgers
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.
— Henry Threadgill