Pastoral Resources

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

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

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.