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Ear Quotes

I have a good ear for languages.

– Harry Dean Stanton

The bohar snapper – they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear – they are much scarier than the sharks.

– Brian Skerry

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.

– Billy Wilder

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

– Clive Davis

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

– Adrian McKinty

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

– Blaise Pascal

I don’t read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

– Erykah Badu

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

– Noel Gallagher

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

– Diane Cilento

I don’t have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me.

– Drew Carey

All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

– The Bible

Ecclesiastes 1:8

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

– Madeleine Peyroux

I ain’t the same person I was when I bit that guy’s ear off.

– Mike Tyson

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

– Kenneth Branagh

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

– Marlee Matlin

I’m totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

– Michael Leunig

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

– James H. Boren

I learn my songs by ear.

– Kate Smith

I can’t read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

– Jane Horrocks

I have a pretty good ear.

– Miranda Lambert

The hearing ear and the seeing eye.

– The Bible

When you produce an album, you’re dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

– Quincy Jones

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.

– Patrick Carney

In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.

– Richard Corliss

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

– Voltaire

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

– Samuel Daniel

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

– William Jennings Bryan