Listening Quotes
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You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.
Andrew Whitworth
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Honestly, I'm not listening to much of what's going on today.
Michael Rapaport
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It's hard listening to myself.
Meg White
The White Stripes
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When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
Jonathan Groff
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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
Charles Duhigg
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If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff seriously, well, they just haven't listened to it and don't know what they're talking about.
Buzz Osborne
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Seungri, are you listening? I love you.
Kwon Ji-yong
Big Bang
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Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.
Ryan Adams
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I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.
Bob Galvin
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When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.
Bill O'Reilly
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Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good.
Barack Obama
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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