Listening Quotes

• Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

  

  Katori Hall
  • Listening
  • Intuition

• Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • People
  • Reading
  • Judge

• 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

• You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

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

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Money
  • Hurt
  • Listening

• We know that listening to Black Veil Brides, wearing Black Veil Bride shirts, or being in Black Veil Brides isn't always the most popular thing in the world.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • World
  • Black
  • Popular

• Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Listening
  • Glasses
  • Rags

• We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Song
  • Listening

• I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.

  

  G-Dragon
  • People
  • Great
  • Energy

• Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Listening

• Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

  

  Ami Bera
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Listening

• I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful because I grew up listening to different types and variations of soulful melodies and jazz, but experimenting with different types of stylistic souls.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • People
  • Listening
  • Young

• I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

  

  Margaret Hamburg
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Focus

• I can’t tell you what to feel, but I hope that listening will make you feel SOMETHING.

  

  Cisco Adler
  • Listening
  • Feel
  • Make

• Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • History
  • Church

• I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you're touring and you're in the bus and you're listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess - you're never in the same place, you're constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Meetings
  • Dramatic
  • Bus

• People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • Listening

• Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

  

  Jay-Z
  • Music
  • Home
  • Guy

• [My fashion] line is inspired by real people, so I guess you could say it was listening to them, what they need, what they want and then translating that into coming from me.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Real
  • Fashion

• Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music
  • Listening

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