What is listening?

Famous quotes containing the word listening:

“When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)

“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)

“The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)