Listening Quotes
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An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.
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I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.
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I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.
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I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
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Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things.
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'Nothing Left to Lose' was an album that I wrote in my bedroom, and you don't know who is listening or who cares.
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There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.
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I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.
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You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
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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.'
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In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.
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Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening carefully or we will never recognize them.
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I'm not this bright-eyed 17-year-old that got signed to a label and is listening to all these suits tell them the best plan of action.
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When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
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Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.
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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
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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
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Most of my best friends ended up being women, most notably my wife, and I learn a lot by simply listening.
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I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.
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Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.
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I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
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Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
