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 ~
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
~By Sam Waterston ~
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.
~By Jay McShann ~
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 ~
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 ~
Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.
~By Tom Araya ~
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
~By Pat Metheny ~
I grew up listening to old soul.
~By Erykah Badu ~
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
~By Doug Coupland ~
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
~By Ryan White ~
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 ~
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
~By Andre Malraux ~
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
~By Emma Thompson ~
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 ~
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 ~
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
~By Donna Tartt ~
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
~By Stephen King ~
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
~By Emma Thompson ~
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
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 ~
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
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 ~
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 had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.
~By Tom Araya ~
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 ~
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
~By Burning Spear ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
~By Clara Schumann ~
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
~By Bob Nelson ~
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 ~
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
~By Jane Goodall ~
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 ~
It's hard listening to myself.
~By Meg White ~
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 ~
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 ~
At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
~By Nancy McKeon ~
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
~By Wanda Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
~By Lee Konitz ~
I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.
~By Jill Scott ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
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 ~
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
~By Marge Piercy ~
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
~By Lillian Smith ~
I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
~By Don Henley ~
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 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 ~
I really like listening to music in my car.
~By Aaron Neville ~
I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.
~By David Thewlis ~
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 ~
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 ~
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
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 ~
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 ~
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.
~By Charlie Norwood ~
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 ~
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.
~By Charles Stanley ~
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 ~
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
~By Jose Bergaman ~
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
~By Count Basie ~
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'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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.
~By Reba McEntire ~
You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
~By Boy George ~
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 ~
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'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
~By George Carlin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.
~By Brandon Routh ~
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 ~
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 ~
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
~By Thomas Merton ~
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
~By Joan Didion ~
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