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 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 ~
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 ~
I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.
~By Herbert Gold ~
I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.
~By Graham Nash ~
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 don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
~By Rick Moranis ~
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 ~
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 ~
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
~By Sam Waterston ~
I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
~By Frankie Valli ~
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'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 ~
And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.
~By Andre Braugher ~
What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
All of my style came from listening to records.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
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 ~
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
~By Doug Larson ~
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
~By Alvin Lee ~
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
~By Simone Weil ~
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
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'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
~By Count Basie ~
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
~By Jose Bergaman ~
I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.
~By Robbie 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 ~
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
~By Ben Harper ~
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 personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
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 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 ~
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
~By Philip Pullman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.
~By Bobby Hatfield ~
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block.
~By Alicia Keys ~
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
~By Carter Burwell ~
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
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 ~
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
~By Alvin Lee ~
I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.
~By Carole King ~
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 ~
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 ~
You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.
~By Ruggiero Ricci ~
It's hard listening to myself.
~By Meg White ~
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 ~
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.
~By Tom Araya ~
Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
~By Brittany Murphy ~
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 ~
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
~By Donal Henahan ~
The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
~By Dean Rusk ~
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 ~
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 ~
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
You can't fake listening. It shows.
~By Raquel Welch ~
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.
~By Brian Koslow ~
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 ~
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 ~
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.
~By Thurston Moore ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
~By Alice Cooper ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
~By Jonny Greenwood ~
When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.
~By Jan Hammer ~
There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
~By Anne Northup ~
We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
~By Boy George ~
In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.
~By Chico Hamilton ~
I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
~By Benny Green ~
So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
~By Jodie Foster ~
When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.
~By Craig Bruce ~
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
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 ~
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
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 ~
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
~By Katey Sagal ~
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 ~
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 ~
I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.
~By Linda McCartney ~
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
~By George Carlin ~
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
~By Tony Wilson ~
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