I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
~By Gary Cherone ~
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
~By Doug Larson ~
At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
~By Nancy McKeon ~
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
~By Graham Greene ~
In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.
~By George P. Baker ~
The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
~By Damon Albarn ~
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
~By Grandmaster Flash ~
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
~By Jill Scott ~
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.
~By Casey Abrams ~
I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.
~By Michael Bennett ~
But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.
~By Marc Wallice ~
I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
~By Frankie Valli ~
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
~By Bob Graham ~
I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.
~By Casey Abrams ~
I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.
~By Catherine McCormack ~
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
~By Donal Henahan ~
Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
~By Ryan White ~
The big secret in acting is listening to people.
~By Eli Wallach ~
I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.
~By LaToya London ~
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
~By Bill Watterson ~
I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
~By Wanda Jackson ~
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
~By Joan Didion ~
Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.
~By Mike Lowry ~
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.
~By Mark E. Smith ~
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
~By Kool Moe Dee ~
When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.
~By Liz Phair ~
Some people think its just fun and games and others don't know how much I pushed to get here. They have to be in my shoes, but by listening to my music they can find out.
~By Chingy ~
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
~By Elena Kagan ~
When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
~By Florence Griffith Joyner ~
What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.
~By Clara Hughes ~
When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.
~By Florent Schmitt ~
I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
~By Fred Ward ~
You can't fake listening. It shows.
~By Raquel Welch ~
While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.
~By Mark Knopfler ~
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.
~By Graham Nash ~
John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!
~By Alan Vega ~
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
~By James Nasmyth ~
I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.
~By Louise Jameson ~
We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
~By Pat Mastelotto ~
That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.
~By Christina Milian ~
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.
~By Marie Corelli ~
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.
~By Lewis Thomas ~
What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.
~By Jon Crosby ~
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
~By Billy Bragg ~
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
~By Benny Green ~
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
~By Namie Amuro ~
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
~By Ben Harper ~
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
~By Albert Ellis ~
Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.
~By Tom Araya ~
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.
~By Chris Bailey ~
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
~By Carter Burwell ~
I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?
~By Michael Bolton ~
My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.
~By Jim Sullivan ~
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
~By Larry King ~
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
~By Pedro Martinez ~
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
~By Pat Metheny ~
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
~By Steve Lacy ~
I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
~By Bill Joy ~
I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
~By Edgar Winter ~
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
~By Marge Piercy ~
Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.
~By Robert Fripp ~
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
~By Henry Taylor ~
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.
~By Reba McEntire ~
What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
~By Anita Hill ~
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.
~By Henry Reed ~
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.
~By Charles Stanley ~
I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
~By Henry J. Kaiser ~
In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
~By Alan Rickman ~
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
~By William Bell ~
Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
~By Errol Morris ~
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
~By Lee Konitz ~
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
~By John James Audubon ~
One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
~By Mary Lou Williams ~
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.
~By Brandon Boyd ~
My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.
~By Robert Palmer ~
We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.
~By Gilbert Hernandez ~
The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
~By Dean Rusk ~
Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.
~By Rita Coolidge ~
Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.
~By Michael Ende ~
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
~By Boy George ~
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