The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
~By Donal Henahan ~
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
~By George W. Bush ~
I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
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 ~
I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.
~By Graham Nash ~
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
~By Barbara Deming ~
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
~By James Stephens ~
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
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'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 ~
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
~By Carter Burwell ~
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
~By Emma Thompson ~
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
~By Lee Konitz ~
Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.
~By Michael Ende ~
The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
~By Dean Rusk ~
I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.
~By Enya ~
In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
~By Satyajit Ray ~
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 had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.
~By John Fahey ~
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 ~
When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
~By Florence Griffith Joyner ~
I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.
~By Polly Berrien Berends ~
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.
~By Alex Noble ~
Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
~By Burning Spear ~
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
~By Joely Fisher ~
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
~By James Cash Penney ~
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
~By Robert Smith ~
I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.
~By David Thewlis ~
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
~By Salma Hayek ~
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
~By Nancy McKeon ~
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 ~
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 ~
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.
~By Craig Bruce ~
We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
~By Vince McMahon ~
I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.
~By Brandon Routh ~
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 ~
But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
It's hard listening to myself.
~By Meg White ~
I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.
~By Tom Jones ~
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
~By Bill Watterson ~
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 ~
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
~By Sam Waterston ~
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.
~By Moira Kelly ~
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 ~
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 ~
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
~By Jerry Reed ~
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
~By Count Basie ~
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 ~
A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.
~By Kathleen Sebelius ~
I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records.
~By Lee Ann Womack ~
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 ~
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
~By Jeff Tweedy ~
A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar.
~By Sean Booth ~
Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
~By Jose Bergaman ~
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
~By Robert Quine ~
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
~By Gary Lucas ~
It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.
~By Graham Coxon ~
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
~By Scott Speedman ~
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.
~By Mike Lowry ~
Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.
~By Stan Kenton ~
I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
~By Bob Nelson ~
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.
~By Aimee Mann ~
I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
~By Don Henley ~
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.
~By Reba McEntire ~
When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.
~By David Amram ~
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
~By Benny Green ~
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 I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.
~By Patty Duke ~
It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
~By Vanessa Kerry ~
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
~By Marcel Achard ~
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
~By Brian Eno ~
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
~By Jodie Foster ~
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 ~
For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
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 ~
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
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 ~
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
~By Gary Cherone ~
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
~By John Lubbock ~
That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.
~By David Amram ~
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
~By Milan Kundera ~
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