"Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening"

--

Source : Pauline Oliveros (2005). “Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice”, p.21, iUniverse

Pauline Oliveros

#Listening Quotes #Hearing Quotes

“President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.”
“Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.”
“We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.”
“The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.”

Source : "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". 1989.
“Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing”
“Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous ***** to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?”
“You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.”

Source : Julia Spencer-Fleming (2015). “The Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Series, Books 4-6: To Darkness and to Death; All Mortal Flesh; I Shall Not Want”, p.434, Macmillan
“Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.”

You may also like:

Anthony Braxton
Composer
David Tudor
Pianist
Evan Parker
Saxophone player
John Cage
Composer
Morton Feldman
Composer
Robert Ashley
Composer
Roscoe Mitchell
Composer
Terry Riley
Composer
Phill Niblock
Composer