I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.
People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.
I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.
I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
August Rush: The music is all around US, all you have to do is listen.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.
When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.
Shhhhhhhh..... Be silent. Silence your mind and listen.... Let the voice of your soul echo and shiiiiine!
Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.
My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.
