Listening Quotes

• Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Kids

• Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

  

  Justin Cathal Geever Anti-Flag
  • Fighting
  • Racism
  • Punk

• 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

• 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

• I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• 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

• We must listen to poets.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Listening
  • Poets

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

  

  Johnny Colt Train
  • Bad
  • Listening

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Listening

• 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 grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Up
  • Listening

• 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'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 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

• I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

  

  Burn Gorman
  • Listening

• 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

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

  

  Donal Henahan
  • Music
  • Brain
  • 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 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

• Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Hope
  • Listening
  • Missing

• 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

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