The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point This can be done. Abraham Maslow
Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying. Compay Segundo
In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear. Ram Dass
I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living. Elizabeth Gilbert
I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear. Garth Greenwell
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Jeanette Winterson