Listening Quotes
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One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
Itzhak Perlman
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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
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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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Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
Burning Spear
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Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
Maya Hawke
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Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
William Arthur Ward
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But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
Philip Levine
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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
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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
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Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
Robert Smith
The Cure
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They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it's the election of Donald Trump, or Brexit, the elites have realized that the people have stopped listening to them, that the people want to determine their futures and, in a perfectly democratic framework, regain control of their destiny.
Marine Le Pen
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So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there’s no way you’re gonna find out what it means.
Frank Zappa
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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
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For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
Jena Malone