Listening Quotes

• I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

  

  Larry King
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Myself

• Overall, working with 50 Cent was one of my favourite moments. I grew up, like most of us did, listening to his music and loving him as an artist, so to be able to work with him as an actor was definitely something that was so exciting.

  

  J. R. Ramirez
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

  

  Schoolboy Q
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Batteries

• My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Great
  • Help
  • Father

• 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

• I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • Music
  • Different
  • Listening

• When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • People
  • Listening

• I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Rude

• The thing that's been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • May
  • Listening

• It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • Music
  • Environment
  • Mood

• Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future - there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Sea

• 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 grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Pink

• As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Up
  • Country
  • 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

• I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

  

  Emun Elliott
  • Listening

• 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

• My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

  

  Robert Palmer
  • Music
  • Age
  • Soul

• I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Listening

• I grew up listening to everybody.

  

  Lil Baby
  • Listening
  • Everybody
  • Grew

• The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.

  

  Brenda Blethyn
  • Listening

• I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Music
  • Core
  • Who I Am

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