Top 20 Hypnotic Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Hypnotic Quotes from famous people such as Kurt Vile, Eleanor Catton, Kevin Parker, Henry Reed, Megan Amram, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel

Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I’m more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.
Kurt Vile
Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There’s something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.
Eleanor Catton
With ‘Innerspeaker’ I was trying to do these hypnotic ’60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
Kevin Parker
When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.
Henry Reed
I feel like it’s such an exercise in, like, several things to read a ton of ‘Cosmo’s or ‘Glamour’s or whatever, all at once. Because you start realizing how they’re just talking about nothing for many pages, and they sort of lull you into this hypnotic state.
Megan Amram
Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.
Ryan Gosling
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
Richard Le Gallienne
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn’t even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
Byron Katie
I actually really liked the music to the ‘Friday the 13th’ Nintendo game. I still listen to it all the time. I sampled it in a couple records, too. It’s hypnotic and dark but also really pretty.
Flying Lotus
You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they’ve got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products.
Alexandra Kleeman
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind’s eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
Fritz Kreisler
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
John Fahey
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
Eric Clapton
‘Life in space is impossible,’ we’re warned, and amidst the hypnotic beauty of these heavens, we become painfully aware of what a hostile environment space is, how unforgiving, how unsympathetic to human desires.
Nick Sagan
‘Legion’ is meant to be a show that is a state of mind. But the problem with TV is that there are commercials. There’s a hypnotic quality to the way we put it together. I need to get you out of your life in the first seven minutes of that show.
Noah Hawley
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody’s talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.
Maureen Dowd
Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure’s words. As I am always sharing, ‘wordswordswords’ can become ‘swordswordswords,’ and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.
Bernie Siegel
The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and a bloody history.
Bari Weiss
There’s just something hypnotic about maps.
Ken Jennings
One of the Age of Enlightenment’s most hypnotic images is Ledoux’s rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 – 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.
Martin Filler