Listening To Music Quotes

“It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.”
― Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics

“Now opium, by greatly increasing the activity of the mind generally, increases, of necessity, that particular mode of its activity by which we are able to construct out of the raw material of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure”
― Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater

“[Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it shrivel up and rot away. For some, a spinning record opened up the possibility that one might say anything, in any voice, with any face, the singer's mask now a sign of mystery.”
― Greil Marcus

“Art flows well when music is the conduit.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“You know it is good music when what you listen to spurs you on to create something.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“As food feeds the body, so does music feed the soul.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts