Listening Quotes

• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

  

  James Comey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

  

  Dean Rusk
  • People
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • War
  • Listening

• The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • People
  • Music
  • Luck

• I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Up
  • Listening

• The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Man
  • Period
  • Enjoy

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

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• 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

• Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • inspirational
  • Loneliness
  • Remedy

• 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 actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

  

  Avicii
  • Time
  • Music
  • House

• 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've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• 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'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Listening
  • Judging

• I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • People
  • Music
  • Intuition

• I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kids

• 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

• A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Up
  • Listening

• I've worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I'm already prepared for the game. So when I'm listening to music pregame, it's really just about personal enjoyment.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Music
  • Game
  • Gym

• My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Listening

• Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

  

  Betty Jane Wylie
  • Listening
  • Skills
  • Mistresses

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