Listening Quotes

I grew up listening to old soul

Erykah Badu
- Up
- Soul
- Old Soul
Babyface is one of the top songwriters in the world ever, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have worked with everybody that I grew up listening to.

Algee Smith
- Up
- World
- Listening

I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon record and skip a song: you listen to it the same way you would eat a meal... the way the person who prepared that meal for you means for you to experience it. That's how you should do it before you add salt and pepper to it.

Ashley McBryde
- Up
- Experience
- Song
There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.

Madeleine de Souvre
- Great
- Alone
- Self
Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

Dee Dee Myers
- Powerful
- Listening
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

Branford Marsalis
- People
- Listening
- Lion
The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

Ed Simons The Chemical Brothers
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

Bjork
- Work
- Listening