Listening Quotes
-
Rather than name-calling and arguing about whether it is appropriate or not to employ radical tactics, we progressives need to start listening to each other.
-
The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease.
-
I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew.
-
My big brother listened to classic rock, and I grew up listening to a classic rock station called KSHE.
-
Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.
-
You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'
-
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
-
I was in New York and was pursuing musical theater, and it didn't feel right. I felt I was forcing myself to do things and be things that I wasn't, all the time. I wasn't listening to what I wanted to do. I was listening to what I thought I should do.
-
I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.
-
I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good place.
-
Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.
-
For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.
-
I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.
-
You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.
-
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
-
Ask yourself whose voice are you listening to? What you see in me is the result of prayer and hard work and obedience to the voice of God.
-
From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.
-
I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
-
My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.
-
I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain.
-
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
-
I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.
-
I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.
-
What started it all was the Kanye album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.' We started listening to that and just fell in love with it, fell in love with his production style.
