Listening Quotes

• I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• It was frustrating that young people, through no fault of their own, were listening to terrible $2 ear buds. You can't get good sound out of those.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • People
  • Good
  • Listening

• For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

  

  Jena Malone
  • Listening

• Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you’re listening to everything that’s happened to me since I was 18 years old.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Work
  • Art
  • Experience

• I was first influenced by a friend in fifth grade when he brought a Walkman to school and was listening to 'Paradise City' by Guns 'N Roses, which he had concealed within his hoodie. He put the headphones over my ears and I was completely blown away by what I heard. I'll never forget that.

  

  Darren Robinson
  • School
  • City
  • Friend

• Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Cooking
  • Busy

• Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Listening

• You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • Music
  • Power
  • Listening

• 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?

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Thinking
  • Control
  • Listening

• It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • God
  • Stop
  • Sleep

• Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.

  

  Paula Pell
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Listening

• I grew up listening to English music.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Up
  • Music
  • English

• When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Value
  • Listening
  • Doing

• I go through periods listening to specific types of music. Because I'm a musician, listening to music is... it's a bit like work for me. A little bit.

  

  James McBride
  • Work
  • Music
  • Listening

• Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Die
  • Dark
  • Rip

• I love listening to classical music.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Music
  • Listening

• It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Listening

• I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Night
  • Black
  • Listening

• I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Rap

• I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Grew Up
  • Led Zeppelin
  • Pink Floyd

• I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incredible. She's always got a song for the right occasion. Many people call in, maybe their spirit it a little down, and she lifts them up. She is really somebody special. She's a lifeline to a lot of people.

  

  Ronnie Milsap
  • People
  • Up
  • She

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