I don't like headphones very much and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

Musicians are there in front of you and the spectators sense their tension which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

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.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music they decided in advance that they don't like it.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

When I listen to music these days and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn the Punch Brothers and Marc Johnson the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio there's a lot of bluegrass there.

Music is about listening the more you play the more the magic spreads.

Honestly I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

I listened motionless and still And as I mounted up the hill The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

This land is your land and this land is my land sure but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

So yes there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

Listen there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change but I've never worked on a movie including my own that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.