listening

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded better, so I turned off the radio and scribbled it down on a piece of paper. I remember that it was in May. People liked that song. They said it was beautiful. I felt overjoyed.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.