Listening Quotes

• Now, we don't get that many specific threats against sporting events, per se. But we know from listening to the chatter how terrorists want to attack iconic events. So whether it's a major Fourth of July celebration or the Super Bowl or the World Series, we assume that that is what they're targeting.

  

  Peter T. King
  • World
  • Listening
  • Celebration

• 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

• My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • Life
  • Music
  • Hope

• And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Listening
  • Mouths

• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Talking

• Some people are natural beauties, some have great style, but sometimes it comes from talent. Take Kate Winslet: I was listening to her speech at the Golden Globes. That woman has so much intensity. She's amazing to watch and to listen to. With some people, it can even be their voice that makes them attractive.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • People
  • Great
  • She

• 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

• Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • School
  • She
  • Bad

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

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • inspirational
  • Loneliness
  • Remedy

• I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, "You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God."

  

  Adele
  • God
  • She
  • Amazing

• The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Giving
  • Listening
  • Unique

• My dad is Dominican, my mother's Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you're cool.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Music
  • Mother

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

  

  Maren Morris
  • Up
  • Country
  • Listening

• 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 started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

  

  Philip Levine
  • Music
  • Home
  • Listening

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

  

  Betty Jane Wylie
  • Listening
  • Skills
  • Mistresses

• To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Home
  • Listening

• Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Listening

• 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

• 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
  • Time
  • Water
  • Rest

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Trying
  • Learning

• I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Up
  • Music
  • Moon

• I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

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