Listening Quotes

• I was talking to my dad about the stuff he grew up listening to, and 'Operation: Mindcrime' is a record that he had always talked about around the house. He always talked about it as the 'greatest concept album of all time.' One day, I started listening to it, and it just hit me. I was like, 'These songs are all hits. They're all huge songs.'

  

  M. Shadows
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • May
  • Small
  • Listening

• Always be listening and learning.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Learning
  • Listening

• I get my ideas from listening from within.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Ideas
  • Listening

• I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Listening
  • Awe
  • Mick Taylor

• There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • People
  • Music
  • Interesting

• Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Beautiful
  • Listening
  • Window

• A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.

  

  Charles Brent
  • Men
  • Waiting
  • Feelings

• Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Listening

• Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Song

• All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Trying
  • Understanding
  • Training

• Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Dream

• I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Why
  • Listening

• Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Bigs
  • Arms
  • Climbs

• Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Great
  • Organization
  • Difference

• In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

  

  John Oliver
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Listening

• I'm not one for sitting around listening to my own music, because I tend to cringe and think that I could have done better. I also suffer from red light syndrome quite a lot. I tend to narrow my thinking when the red light goes on to record. Instead of just relaxing and playing and emoting, I think of time being wasted so I won't take a chance on something. Consequently, when I hear it back, I think, "Why the hell did I play it so safe on that piece of music when I could have really opened up?" Well, it's because of not wanting to make a mistake.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Thinking
  • Suffering
  • Mistake

• It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Song
  • Truck
  • Lyric

• The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Listening

• I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

  

  Moira Kelly
  • Classical
  • Mostly
  • Sixteen

• I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Mom
  • Singing
  • Wonder

• If Rip Van Winkle came back, there's only one institution he would recognize: "Oh! That's a school. Kids are still sitting in rows, still listening to the font of wisdom at the front of the classroom."

  

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
  • Back
  • Recognize
  • Institution

• 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

• 'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music, hanging out with all different kinds of people.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

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