1.
He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.
Pablo Neruda
One who fails to explore, learn, or appreciate the beauty in life, gradually withers away.
2.
I have got to do something that makes me focus on one thing, and so I will sit and listen to music, or I will read, or I will go and make ammunition in my workshop. I have just got to keep myself busy.
David Feherty
3.
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
Jake Bugg
4.
I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
Jonny Greenwood
5.
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
Brian Eno
7.
I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.
Celine Dion
9.
Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.
Phil Woods
11.
I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
Paula Fox
12.
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
Dolly Parton
14.
I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
Amy Winehouse
16.
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
Richard Price
17.
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
Khaled Hosseini
18.
Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.
David Longstreth
19.
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
Vikram Seth
20.
I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
Sia Furler
21.
I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
Walton Goggins
22.
You know I used to listen to music a lot more.
Brett Favre
23.
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
Barbra Streisand
24.
I don't like listening to music that isn't real.
Joss Stone
25.
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
Dana Spiotta
26.
I like R&B. I listen to music, not singers.
Tim Duncan
27.
One of my favorite activities is just to drive and listen to music - of course, only when there's no traffic.
Jacqui Holland
29.
I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.
Fatih Ak?n
30.
When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.
Kirsten Dunst
31.
When I'm in the mood to listen to music, I do like to go to the SkyBar [ L.A.].
Tracy Morgan
32.
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
Lincoln Child
35.
When I'm in writing mode I tend not to listen to music. I usually have a gestation period before I start writing. When I'm listening, it usually happens on the road. So, we'd been listening to a lot of music on tour the year before and all that stuff sank in.
Luke Temple
36.
[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.
Queen Latifah
38.
I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.
Shane McCrae
40.
Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now
Christina Milian
41.
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me
Laura Hillenbrand
42.
I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
John Legend
43.
You can’t go through life not listening to music.
Graeme Simsion
44.
Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.
Earl Thomas
45.
To me, art and music inform each other continually, and when I was making more music there was an overall aesthetic that was shared by both mediums. Now I always listen to music when I work, so when I am working a lot, that is when I start searching out new music and finding new things to get excited about.
Neil Farber
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
Vince Neil
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I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
Peter Tork
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I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.
Gemma Arterton