The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.
I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?
I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.
I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.
The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea.
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.