The big secret in acting is listening to people.
~By Eli Wallach ~
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 ~
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
~By Alan Vega ~
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 ~
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.
~By Herb Alpert ~
I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
~By Don Henley ~
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
~By Emma Thompson ~
Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.
~By Mike Lowry ~
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
~By Buddha ~
I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.
~By Robert Fripp ~
My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
~By Steve Nash ~
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
~By Emma Thompson ~
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'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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.
~By Robbie Williams ~
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 people keeps them entertained.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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'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 ~
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.
~By Thomas Perry ~
Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
~By Geezer Butler ~
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.
~By Phil McGraw ~
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 ~
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 remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
~By Scott Speedman ~
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 ~
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
~By Marcel Achard ~
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 get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
~By Bjork ~
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 ~
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 ~
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
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 ~
Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
~By Carla Bley ~
I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.
~By Graham Nash ~
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
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 ~
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 ~
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.
~By Mick Taylor ~
With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
~By Bill Wyman ~
If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
~By Bill Laswell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
~By Casey Affleck ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
~By Carter Burwell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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, 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 ~
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 ~
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
~By Ben Harper ~
I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.
~By Will Ferrell ~
People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.
~By Brian Koslow ~
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
~By Alice Miller ~
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
~By Robert Quine ~
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 ~
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 ~
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
~By Boy George ~
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
~By George Carlin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.
~By Donella Meadows ~
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 ~
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
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 ~
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