Listening Quotes

• I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Real
  • Soul

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Thought

• Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Ocean

• The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Me
  • Style

• The best place for me is in my car, listening to my stereo. I am 'Mr. Karaoke Guy' in the car, completely. I just go with it and don't care what anyone else thinks - I'm singing, man!

  

  Drake Bell
  • Guy
  • Singing
  • Car

• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Trying
  • May
  • Mean

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Why

• What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Listening
  • Nobody
  • Left

• Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Technology
  • Learning

• The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Attention

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Silence

• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Emotions

• I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Listening
  • View

• Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Words
  • Interesting

• I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• My neighbor's not even listening to me. He's all excited about some garden hose he bought at Brookstone. He's convinced it was designed by NASA. "Actually, it's got two nozzles, one for the hot and one for the..." Really? Is it long enough to go around both our necks and the chimney so we can tandem jump off of this? That's all I really care about you and your little garden hose.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Long
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Usher is definitely somebody I came up listening to.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Up
  • Listening

• In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I moved to Dallas, I started listening to whatever I wanted to listen to.

  

  Post Malone
  • Music
  • Country
  • Dad

• My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Life
  • World

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