Listening Quotes

• 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

• The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.'

  

  Art Malik
  • Listening

• 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

• That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Time
  • Music
  • Fun

• I think record stores play a huge part in discovering new music. When I was growing up I would spend hours going through all the bins looking for something new that seemed interesting to me and that could relate to what I was listening to at the time. This is why I want to support National Record Store Day.

  

  Joe Principe Rise Against
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Record Stores

• There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • Music
  • Value
  • Listening

• My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

  

  Chanel Iman
  • World
  • Music
  • Fun

• My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also old R&B and Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. But, you know, I had rock phases and liked more modern R&B acts. I've always listened to all kinds of music, and I like all kinds of music.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Country
  • Dad

• When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Listening

• Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Up
  • Song
  • Listening

• My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dad

• An important part of my job is listening to diverse points of view at all levels - from Millennials starting their careers... to women at the highest levels of leadership... to my own wife and daughter.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Important
  • Women
  • Job

• If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Waiting
  • Place
  • Connection

• You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Selling
  • Acclaim

• I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • People
  • Good
  • Listening

• 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

• Lift every voice and singTill earth and heaven ring,Ring with the harmonies of Liberty.Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies;Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • High
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I was listening to the guy that represented me in the state Senate, and I just got really frustrated. I called my wife and said, 'I've always wanted to do something that makes a difference.' So I ended up running and won.

  

  Matt Salmon
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Running

• I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Up
  • Listening

• There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything - and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly.

  

  Anna Netrebko
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.

  

  China Forbes
  • Spiritual
  • Feel
  • Soprano

• As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

  

  Allen Covert
  • Music
  • Children
  • Fun

• Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

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