Listening Quotes

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
Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

Patty Griffin
- People
- Men
- Song

Police use of deadly force is rare in America. You wouldn't know that by listening to some of the blowhards out there: the newspaper, the mainstream media, the race hustlers. They make it seem like this stuff happens several times a day. It's rare.

David A. Clarke, Jr.
- America
- Listening
- Police
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
Once you start listening to the comics, be they Jewish, Muslim, Italian, Filipino or whatever, the material often springs from the same source - the overbearing mom, the parents who want you to marry from within your community. That's why the 'Ethnic Show' works so well.

Maz Jobrani
- Why
- Parents
- Community
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
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
I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

Philip Levine
- Music
- Home
- Listening