Listening Quotes
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There's not one day that goes by that I'm not listening to one of my songs or in rehearsal for one of my songs or dancing to one of my songs.
Kat Graham
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When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
Fred Wilson
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Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.
Kathryn Minshew
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It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
Alvin Lee
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My mom used to be concerned 'cause I would never go outside. And when I'd go outside, I'd have friends, but I just was always in the house listening to music, practicing DJing all the time. Then my uncle got a keyboard, drum machine, so I'd just be in the house at 12, 13, just, like, messing up his presets. And my mom was like, 'My son is strange.'
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
A Tribe Called Quest
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As athletes, we love to say, 'Just one more; I'm going to figure it out on this next one.' It's tough to pull back the reins and do what is smart physically, listening to your body and always ending a workout or session feeling like I could have done more.
Ashton Eaton
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I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.
Prince Royce
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The corporate Catch-22: Don't be flexible, lose good women; be flexible, lose good women... A company listening to women's desires for flexibility and therefore fewer promotions, giving fewer promotions to women, and then being sued for giving fewer promotions to women. Yiddish has a word for this: chutzpah.
Warren Farrell
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
Gabrielle Aplin
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I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.
William Fitzsimmons
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The thing that's been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music.
Kelsea Ballerini
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After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.
Brian Tyree Henry
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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
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When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.
Miriam Makeba
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Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.
Marvin J. Ashton
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I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.
Brett Eldredge
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In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.
Marillyn Hewson
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
Zac Brown Band
