Listening Quotes

• I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Acting
  • Chemistry
  • Reacting

• 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'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Listening

• The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.

  

  Wu Han
  • Understanding
  • Requirements
  • Responding

• I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

  

  Dean Bakopoulos
  • World
  • Music
  • Listening

• I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

  

  John Fahey
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Listening

• All those angry, uneducated Trump supporters seemed to understand what his policies were. They figured it out by listening to him. It was only fair. No one listened to Trump, except the voters; and no one listened to the voters, except Trump.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Listening
  • Trump
  • Angry

• People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • People
  • Attention
  • Listening

• Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Heart

• I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

  

  Emilie Autumn Liddell
  • People
  • Listening

• Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.

  

  Bartholomew
  • Listening
  • Muse
  • Spend Time

• I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest. It's very, very, honest. I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics. I'm sure they'll learn about a new side to me, it's all very honest, I don't put on any... there's no fake-ness to it, it's very real and I hope my fans can relate to it and that it's enjoyable for all ages.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Listening

• I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Morning
  • Listening
  • Summer

• 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

• Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
  • Listening

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

  

  YoungBoy Never Broke Again
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Overcome

• The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • School
  • Truth
  • Political

• Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Mother
  • High
  • Journey

• Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Idea

• 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

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