Ear Quotes

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

I have a good ear for languages.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.