“You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”

“I hear noises which others don't hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don't hear either.”

“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”

“You can't hear me.
You can't hear me.
You can't hear what I'm saying.
You can't hear what I'm saying to you.”

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

“Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again -- S-E-R-F music.”

“When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.”

“Formalism is music that people don’t understand at first hearing.”

“Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.”

“I heard some interesting things about your performance up here."

"I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.”