Listening Quotes
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
Ted Cruz
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My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.
Dominic Monaghan
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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
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It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I was raised listening to, like, Jay and Big and Pac, Cassidy, Ludacris, even some of Drake's stuff.
Jay Pharoah
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I really like listening to music in my car.
Aaron Neville
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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
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Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.
Betty Jane Wylie
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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
Mary Lou Williams
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Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.
J. Tillman
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The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
James Cash Penney
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Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.
Natalie Cole
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I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.
LaToya London
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My mom used to be concerned 'cause I would never go outside. And when I'd go outside, I'd have friends, but I just was always in the house listening to music, practicing DJing all the time. Then my uncle got a keyboard, drum machine, so I'd just be in the house at 12, 13, just, like, messing up his presets. And my mom was like, 'My son is strange.'
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
A Tribe Called Quest
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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
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I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.
Jason Mraz
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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
Laura Benanti
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
