Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.
I never get tired of hearing compliments.
Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them.
We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.