Listening Quotes

• 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.

  

  David Amram
  • Music
  • Important
  • Reading

• I think that when you make a record, an album, it has to be a discovery for the person listening to it, so you don't want to pat everything out and say 'this was that, this is definite, that's how it happened and that's what you should feel and that's what you should like or dislike'. It's personal discovery.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Listening

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  David Amram
  • Time
  • Listening

• I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Up
  • War
  • Girl

• I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Work
  • Giving

• There's nothing like listening to the drone of QVC's always-bubbly pitchwomen, as they try to move loose-fitting tunics with 'just the right amount of sparkle,' to soothe you into a healing slumber.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Listening
  • Healing
  • Sparkle

• When I got to the stage, it was like a release, you know what I mean? Because it was like, 'Oh, people like me. People like me. They're listening to what I have to say. They're not judging me on how I look; they're judging me on what I'm saying.' So to me, that's what's worth it, and that's what comedians have.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • People
  • Listening
  • Judging

• I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Like
  • Listening

• It's such a changing industry, and I realize that it's become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a full record. It's the artist's story captured in 12 or 15 songs.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Listening

• I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Dad
  • Listening
  • Inspired

• I love listening to pop radio.

  

  Washed Out
  • Love
  • Listening
  • Radio

• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Good
  • Listening

• All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'

  

  Jamie Farr
  • People
  • Listening

• I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kind

• My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Myself
  • Wonder
  • Worry

• I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Life
  • Listening

• In 'Kill Rock n' Roll,' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Rock
  • Listening

• Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Different
  • Man

• I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • People
  • Listening

• I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Home
  • Song
  • Like

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