Thomas Mars Quotes

I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

I consume music the way other people consume movies.

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

I don't really listen to music. I don't. I watch television.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

If you like it live, you know that you're probably going to like the record, usually.

My attention span was not great.

I mean, I love buying albums, I'm obsessed, but now you just click 'add', don't you? And when do you actually listen to anything? You know, unless you're in the car or you've got time to do that, it's just not the same world any more in terms of concentration.

Any songs that I like, I sort of rinse them out.

It's hard to get someone to sit down and listen to an album in its entirety.

If I switch on the radio and hear some nice classical music, I will sit and listen to it but I don't sort of play records or go for any particular type of music.

I've got no attention span.

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

I don't listen to music. I never have done.

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an attention span for listening time, you know? You could listen and give it all your attention. Put on something that's 70 minutes, and nobody's sticking around past the first 20 or 30 minutes.

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.

Really, I only listen to like five songs.

I didn't even have a record player as a kid, so everything was down to radio.