Listening Quotes

• Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.

  

  Mary Halvorson
  • People
  • Dad
  • Listening

• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  

  T. H. White
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Connection

• Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

  

  Anohni
  • World
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • inspirational
  • Marketing
  • Observation

• I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

  

  Jay McShann
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Lyrics

• I started listening to The-Dream a lot. That's when I really got into writing songs. I like the way he put lyrics and makes his songs. So I was like, 'All right,' and I just started writing. That's when I started wanting to be a songwriter.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Lyrics

• I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Moving

• Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Why
  • Food
  • Alone

• 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
  • Book
  • Listening

• I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

  

  Matthew Morrison
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dance

• I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it. I just can't stop reading about it or watching videos about it or listening to TED Talks about it.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Space

• I'm all about unity and loving your neighbor... If somebody told me when I was growing up that the music I was listening to was stupid, and I listened to them, I wouldn't be where I am today.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Up
  • Music
  • Today

• I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.

  

  Johnny Colt Train
  • Bad
  • Listening

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

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Listening

• I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

  

  David Johansen
  • Good
  • House
  • Listening

• I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.

  

  Myles Richard Bass Alter Bridge
  • Style
  • Choices
  • Listening

• 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

• Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'

  

  Alex Borstein
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Listening

• I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

  

  Donal Henahan
  • Music
  • Brain
  • 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 sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Song

• It's about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say.

  

  David Ige
  • Listening

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