Listening Quotes

• Listening to the neoconservatives, Bush invaded Iraq, united the Arab world against us, isolated us from Europe, and fulfilled to the letter bin Laden's prophecy as to what we were about.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Listening

• Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.

  

  Andrew Zuckerman
  • World
  • Listening
  • Progress

• Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

  

  David Hockney
  • Positive
  • Listening

• I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Music
  • Live
  • Bad

• Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • Music
  • Listening

• When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.

  

  Al Feldstein
  • Movie
  • Listening
  • Witch

• Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Time
  • Book
  • Remember

• Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • People
  • Believe
  • Listening

• 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

• I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Long
  • Listening

• 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

• R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • Up
  • Listening

• There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

  

  Clara Schumann
  • Joy
  • Listening

• If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• 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

• In the summer, on fine evenings, I love to drive late and alone in the scented forests, and when I have reached a dark part stop, and sit quite still, listening to the nightingales repeating their little tune over and over aga^n after interludes of gurgling, or if there are no nightingales, listening to the marvellous silence, and letting its blessedness descend into my very souL The nightingales in the forests about here all sing the same tune, and in the same key of E flat.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Silence
  • Key
  • Forests

• I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Listening
  • Boy

• Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

  

  Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
  • People
  • Different
  • Moved

• You can't wait for someone to discover you; you have to just get on and do it. Have confidence that directing is a very suitable job for a woman - with our gift for collaboration, listening, and reading the nuance of things.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Job
  • Reading
  • Confidence

• Listening is the essence of anything.

  

  David Lyons
  • Listening

• I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Listening

• I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• 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

• Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting.

  

  Austin Carlile
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

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