Eric Garcetti Quotes

I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.

Eric Garcetti

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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Car
  • Listening
  • Ride

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Children
  • Listening
  • End

• There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Listening

• When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Work
  • Father
  • Band

• I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Real
  • Soul

• If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Experience
  • Reading
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Home
  • Nice

• I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Value
  • Negative
  • Politicians

• Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Effort

• Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Business
  • House
  • Death

• In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Start

• What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.

  

  Bono U2
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Listening

• Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Surgeon

• There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • Time
  • Action
  • Doubt

• I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Work
  • Money

• I prime my mind. I wake up every morning and say, "Look, if you don't have 10 minutes for yourself, you don't have a life." I take 10 minutes.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Morning

• He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and by all accounts was a good, generous and loyal friend. But there were a lot of people who wanted only a piece of him.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Listening
  • Politicians
  • Police Officers