Listening Quotes

• I first met Solange at a party for her gorgeous and inspiring website, Saint Heron. I'd already had so many phases of listening exclusively to 2012's 'True' and admired her activism and radiant style.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • True
  • Party
  • Style

• It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Question

• I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• 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

• 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

• Ask yourself whose voice are you listening to? What you see in me is the result of prayer and hard work and obedience to the voice of God.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Voice

• 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

• Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• 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

• Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Listening

• Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Player

• I was raised listening to, like, Jay and Big and Pac, Cassidy, Ludacris, even some of Drake's stuff.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Listening

• He was practicing active listening.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Listening
  • Active
  • Practicing

• Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Time
  • Money
  • May

• Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

  

  Alexandra Kotur
  • People
  • School
  • Job

• I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff. Which I'm really grateful for - it's pretty nice being introduced to that when you're little.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

  

  Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.
  • Different
  • Listening

• I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • People
  • Listening
  • Option

• I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• Like red meat thrown before the Atkins crowd in the Republican Party, the initiative would teach problem solving, negotiating, and listening skills, which might then trickle up to the Bush Administration.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Party
  • Red

• Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Listening

• There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • Music
  • Listening

• It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Book
  • Listening

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