Listening Quotes

• When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Connection

• Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Focus
  • Care
  • Person

• I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche.

  

  Jason McCoy
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Weird

• 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

• The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school '90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get the nerves out before the games.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Music
  • School
  • Fun

• People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.

  

  Charlie Norwood
  • People
  • Power
  • Promise

• Sound sounds are terrible in the city, but it's great to listen and to walk and listen to people talk to each other. There are birds. You hear spring. I like listening to the city.

  

  James Murphy
  • People
  • Great
  • City

• Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Listening

• When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Listening

• 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
  • People
  • Music
  • Intuition

• I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Desire

• So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Listening

• At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Good
  • Home
  • Business

• People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• I'm a big Justin Bieber fan. I've been a Justin Bieber fan. I've been listening to his music. OG, you know. That's also my friend, too, so, you know. It's just one of those things. We've been supporting each other's music for a long, long, long time.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

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

  

  Philip Levine
  • Music
  • Home
  • Listening

• My brother was listening to his transistor radio. He kept switching the earpiece from one ear to the other, which I thought was his idea of a joke. 'You can't do that,' I said. 'You can only hear out of one ear.' 'No, I can hear out of both,' he answered. And that was how I discovered I was deaf in my right ear.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Listening
  • Brother

• Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Thinking
  • Care
  • Sincerity

• An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • Important
  • Song
  • Realizing

• My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

  

  Robert Palmer
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan.

  

  King Tuff
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

  

  Bill Laswell
  • Long
  • Deep
  • Listening

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

  

  Constance Wu
  • Listening

• I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Three

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