"They are quite difficult to listen to": as introductory comments at a concert go, it's not the most encouraging.
"It was difficult to listen to".
With its carefully precise yet improvisational feel, her music is at times difficult to listen to.
Yet, with hindsight, it is now difficult to listen to them without hearing prophecy.
Songwriting is highly competitive, and it is very difficult to listen to things without any cynicism.
I think it is pretty difficult to listen to men and women talking about the trauma and the loss they have suffered without feeling something.
"The music itself is really sophisticated, but it's not difficult to listen to," Clarice Jensen, a cellist and the artistic director of ACME, said of Mr. Brittelle's work.
"We were told that modern music was supposed to be difficult to listen to, was supposed to be dissonant," he said.
A harsh reverb mangles the sound, making loud peaks — especially Olsen's strong upper range — "difficult" to listen to, as Olsen herself has said.
More than a decade of bizarre behavior by him makes it difficult to listen to his music for what it is".
"We know that years ago, it was difficult to listen to our music in Cuba, but now here we are in your beautiful land," Jagger said in Spanish.
