Listening Quotes

• I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they don’t know what they’re talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, 'I wish I knew as little about it as he does.'

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Wish

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

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
  • Listening

• Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Listening

• The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Ignorance
  • Mood
  • Drinking

• I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing!

  

  Alfred Brendel
  • Change
  • Listening
  • I Hope

• 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
  • Responding
  • Requirements

• 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

• There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.

  

  Anne Northup
  • People
  • Listening

• The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Style

• It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.

  

  Zanele Muholi
  • Women
  • Issues
  • Has Beens

• I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • People
  • Important
  • Sales

• I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Everything

• All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Listening
  • Actor
  • Accuracy

• 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

• 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

• I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied that in ballet class, you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class, you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable, and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Live

• I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

  

  Lee Konitz
  • Music
  • Listening

• If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Political
  • Opinion
  • Cancer

• Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

  

  Kanye West
  • Done
  • Giving
  • Party

• 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

• Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

  

  John Cornwell
  • American
  • Listening

• I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.

  

  Penny Marshall
  • Why
  • Game
  • Lost

• 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

• 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

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