When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
‐‐ John Hodgman
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
‐‐ Jonathan Davis
When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.
‐‐ Matisyahu
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.
‐‐ Dave Grohl
When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.
‐‐ Tom Glazer
When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.
‐‐ Dave Matthews
When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.
‐‐ Patty Loveless
When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.
‐‐ Jay Kay
When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
‐‐ Mike Dirnt
When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield
When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
‐‐ Dave Grohl
When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.
‐‐ Keith Richards
When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.
‐‐ Paul Weller
When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.
‐‐ Abbi Jacobson
When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if you wanted to really treat yourself, you went to this place called the Jianguo Hotel. The architect had proudly described it as a perfect replica of a Holiday Inn that he had seen in Palo Alto, California.
‐‐ Evan Osnos
When I lived in Chicago, I didn't like it. It's nice to visit.
‐‐ Kyle Kinane
When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China.
‐‐ Jean Fritz
When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
‐‐ Iman
When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
‐‐ Camila Alves
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
‐‐ Jet Li
When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
‐‐ Hannah Simone
When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
‐‐ Hannah Simone
When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.
‐‐ Idina Menzel
When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.
‐‐ J. D. Souther
When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.
‐‐ Jenna Blum
When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.
‐‐ Callie Khouri
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
‐‐ Ann Beattie
When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times.
‐‐ Cheech Marin
When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.
‐‐ Jimmy Cliff
When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.
‐‐ Donald Hall
When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story!
‐‐ Judy Blume
When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey
When I look around at this world, we women need each other so badly, it breaks my heart. Sisterhood is dissipating, and we aren't doing nearly enough to salvage it. Eliminate the crazies in your life, yes. But also look again at those around you.
‐‐ Grace Gealey
When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver
When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?
‐‐ Bill Cosby
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.
‐‐ Lucian Freud
When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
‐‐ Patrick Wilson
When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan
When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
‐‐ Madhuri Dixit
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
‐‐ David Sedaris
When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
‐‐ Aaron Koblin
When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
‐‐ Taylor Swift
When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
‐‐ Ma Jun
When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.
‐‐ Anna Sui
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga
When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
‐‐ Dave Matthews
When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.
‐‐ Peer Steinbruck
When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.
‐‐ Simon Cowell