Listening Quotes

• I can't usually sleep if I'm listening to music. It seems to fire up my mind, and I keep engaging with it to see what it's doing.

  

  Max Richter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Life
  • Power
  • Smile

• 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

• Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Poverty

• Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Why
  • Boy

• I'm a street player, and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers, and I loved rhythm and blues guys like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown. Man, that band blew me away all of the time.

  

  Joey Kramer Aerosmith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Up
  • Free
  • Star

• I've always studied people and been fascinated by their reactions and feelings. And I think that's the best acting class you can take - watching real people, listening to them and studying them.

  

  Jennifer Lawrence
  • People
  • Real
  • Listening

• My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Music
  • Emotional
  • Mood

• As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

  

  Ami Bera
  • Value
  • Listening

• I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Serious

• You probably can overcome what you're going through from listening to my music.

  

  YoungBoy Never Broke Again
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Overcome

• I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Dark
  • Cold

• I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

  

  Katherine Shindle
  • Everybody
  • Weeks
  • Mixing

• Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

  

  Christina Perri
  • Music
  • Song
  • Singing

• Has he ever even said he loved you?" "He's been telling me for years," she said softly, "I just wasn't listening

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Said
  • Loved
  • Telling

• I want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority government can do it, a sovereigntist government of the Parti Quebecois.

  

  Pauline Marois
  • Country
  • Listening

• One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.

  

  Poe Ballantine
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wife

• Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

  

  Steven Curtis Chapman
  • Up
  • God
  • Inspiration

• Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

  

  Simone Weil
  • Listening
  • Compassion
  • Affliction

• Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Decision
  • Door
  • Voice

• I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Writing
  • Listening

• It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Men
  • Business
  • Brilliance

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