Listening Quotes

• See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

  

  Kim Coates
  • Listening
  • Bible

• I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Music
  • Running
  • Listening

• I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.

  

  Little Simz
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

  

  Marie Corelli
  • Up
  • Summer
  • Sunshine

• I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • People
  • Listening

• I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Artist
  • Creativity
  • Admire

• One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Song
  • Relationship
  • Favorite Thing

• I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Learning
  • Violence

• I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys coming back, spring training, being around them, you get a chance to get to know them. So I always think you learn a lot by listening.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Training
  • Listening
  • Spring

• When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Men
  • Modern
  • Socialism

• I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

  

  Bob Uecker
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

  

  Judy Collins
  • Today
  • Healthy
  • Glad

• When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Listening
  • Playing
  • Complicated

• If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say Wes Montgomery has more substance than others. I find myself listening to the older players. You see one bar of theirs and you can get one hundred more licks out of it.

  

  Emily Remler
  • Players
  • Bar
  • Variations

• I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • School
  • Story
  • Blackboard

• It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of writing and playing. There are so many memories wrapped up in each note and each song that it's hard not to constantly flash back to what made that musical event happen while listening.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Together

• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Truth
  • Listening

• And now we're coming to understand, I think, spiritually in this nation that there is as much power in the soul as there is in group force. There is as much power in listening and understanding and humility as there is, for instance, in military action.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Action

• If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Time
  • Listening

• I feel like there's so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • Kids
  • Feel

• When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Time
  • Music
  • Parents

• There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

  

  Sue Townsend
  • People
  • Listening
  • Problems

• Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Listening
  • Enjoy
  • Sounds

• When I was growing up listening to music, it was 2004, when The Starting Line and Finch and The Used were kind of my favorite bands.

  

  Kellin Quinn
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

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