No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.