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Listening Quotes And Sayings
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Quotes And Sayings About Listening
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Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
~By Marcel Achard ~
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.
~By Stephen Cole Kleene ~
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 ~
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
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 ~
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
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 ~
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.
~By Charles Stanley ~
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 ~
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
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 ~
Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.
~By Michael Ende ~
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
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 ~
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
I really like listening to music in my car.
~By Aaron Neville ~
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 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 ~
At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
~By Nancy McKeon ~
I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.
~By Jill Scott ~
I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.
~By David Thewlis ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
~By Gary Cherone ~
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 ~
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 ~
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
~By John Guare ~
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
~By Dee Dee Ramone ~
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
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 ~
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
~By Clara Schumann ~
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
~By Alan Rickman ~
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
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 ~
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
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 ~
I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
~By Sally Schneider ~
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
~By Sam Waterston ~
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
~By Gary Lucas ~
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 ~
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 ~
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.
~By Mike Lowry ~
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 ~
I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.
~By Louise Jameson ~
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
~By Bill Watterson ~
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
~By Katey Sagal ~
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
~By Brian May ~
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 ~
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.
~By Donella Meadows ~
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 ~
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 you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
~By Milan Kundera ~
I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
~By Ville Valo ~
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
~By Marge Piercy ~
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 ~
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
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 ~
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 ~
You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.
~By Ruggiero Ricci ~
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
~By John Coleman ~
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 ~
There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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 remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
~By Scott Speedman ~
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.
~By John Boehner ~
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 ~
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
~By James Cash Penney ~
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 remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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 of my style came from listening to records.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
~By Jose Bergaman ~
You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
~By Tony Wilson ~
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
~By Jena Malone ~
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
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 ~
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 ~
Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
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 ~
I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.
~By Phil Collins ~
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
~By Geronimo ~
I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
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October 24 ,2024
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