Listening Quotes

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson
- Wisdom
- Listening
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

Philip Pullman
- Music
- Writing
- Silence

We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.

Brett Young
- People
- Music
- Awesome
When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

Denis Villeneuve
- Mind
- Dream
- Friend
I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records.

Lee Ann Womack
- Past
- Girl
- Listening
I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

Sandra Cisneros
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.

Joanne Rowling
- Alone
- Listening
- Silence
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