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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
My grandma is very musical and can play piano by ear, and my grandpa was in a quartet in Kentucky.
I grew up having an ear for what was hot and was not - what sounds good in music and what doesn't.
I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself.
When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.
I find there is something very intimate about being the voice in someone's ear when they're driving.
To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.
I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.
I used to drive my brothers nuts in the car because I would sing in their ear every song on the radio.
FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.
Everybody's talking a lot in my ear, so it's tough sometimes. I try to stay with my team in my bubble.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
I don't really care what type of beat it is. As long as it appeals to my ear, I'm gonna do a song to it.
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.
Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
The truth is, I do some of my best writing at 3 A.M. while blasting 'Every Time I Die' into my ear drums.
One time, I was out watching music, and someone whispered in my ear, 'You can do surgery on me any time.'
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
My mom dragged me by my ear to Catholic school because I was a cutup and thought I needed to see the nuns.
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.
The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.
In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.
Music is a big thing in our family. I also have a feeling and an ear for it. It's something we share in common.
I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.
Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.
That's the way I always listened to music. I'd listen and copy it. I play by ear so that's easier than reading.
If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
If I get a bit big-headed, I get a good clip round the ear from my family and friends. I'm still the same person.
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.
The 'Hey now's' are delivered as people pass me. As I just get near ear range, I hear, 'Hey now!' and that's very funny.