Listening Quotes

• Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Confidence

• Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Important
  • Words

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

  

  Emilie Autumn Liddell
  • People
  • Listening

• Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • Children
  • Family

• I do love listening to singles casually, but that moment, the thing I'm mining the singles for, is something that makes me dig deeper and find a layered offering that allows for discovery after discovery.

  

  David Wallace Crowder
  • Listening
  • Discovery
  • Singles

• And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Listening

• I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound - that pure, clean, pristine sound - and I think it's probably been the biggest influence on my sound.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Music
  • Listening

• I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a track probably from 1980 - somewhere around there - that doesn't actually have any electronic instruments, no drum machines, nothing. Just a drummer and a piano player and they're playing this house music, but they're actually playing it. I really love that aesthetic and wanted to bring that into the album.

  

  Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Austra
  • House
  • Player
  • Aesthetic

• For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Audience

• Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Music
  • 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

• I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.

  

  Art Malik
  • Music
  • Travel
  • Holiday

• One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Opportunity

• You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Listening

• My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Kids

• The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

  

  Benny Green
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dream

• I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

  

  Jaimoe
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Writing
  • Listening

• Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Listening
  • Discovered
  • Instincts

• Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

  

  Arto Lindsay
  • Rock
  • Listening
  • Period

• The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

  

  John Guare
  • Music
  • City
  • Ballet

• Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
  • Good
  • Listening

• Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Listening
  • Thoughts

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