Auditory Focus Quotes

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and that's a whole other thing. I'm going for what it sounds like right away, so it may not even look good on the page.

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

It's a matter of people closing their eyes and opening their ears. If people are able to do that, then music is ageless.

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?