Listening Quotes

• 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

• I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Listening

• I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.

  

  Elizabeth Peyton
  • Art
  • Picture
  • Listening

• My sense of history in music is much greater than a lot of people's. I listen a lot further back in the whole history of music. It's not just pop music of the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years. I'm listening to stuff from hundreds of years ago as well, because you can learn from everything.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• I am delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like.

  

  Ann Richards
  • Real
  • Listening
  • Texas

• I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Music
  • Fans
  • Lyrics

• Someone was holding up a sign for Loz that said “fast!” at random times, and there was also a weird length to every other line of chords. It just takes you by surprise when you’re listening, always wrong-foots you, I like that.

  

  Andrew Bell
  • Listening
  • Surprise
  • Chords

• 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

• Listening to 'Raising Sand' was one of those turning points in my life that really made something click in my brain.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Listening

• 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

• On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Listening

• When you're in the middle of an interview, it's so easy to stop listening and think about the next question you're going to ask. You can miss that golden moment which might take you in a different direction or a direction you didn't expect.

  

  Emily Chang
  • Different
  • Stop
  • Question

• Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Up
  • Surgeon
  • Clarinet

• Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.

  

  Philip Selway Radiohead
  • People
  • Time
  • Listening

• I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

  

  Kiki Smith
  • World
  • Music
  • Family

• 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 like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • People
  • Listening

• I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain.

  

  James Agate
  • Listening
  • Rain

• Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Marriage

• My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Music
  • Black
  • Dad

• When I was working on 'Night Falls Over Kortedala,' I was listening a lot to 'Graceland,' the Paul Simon record. I really got into the lyrics on that album. The opening line is so brilliant, the way he sets the scene.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Night
  • Listening
  • Lyrics

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