Listening Quotes
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When I talk, it shouldn't just be black girls listening.
Alek Wek
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I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.
Maren Morris
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As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
Seth Godin
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It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
Andrew Mayer Cohen
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When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.
Ethan Zuckerman
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I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.
Little Simz
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Honestly, I'm not listening to much of what's going on today.
Michael Rapaport
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I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events ... me going to concerts and saying "I think I can do that".
Bill Gaither
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So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.
Miroslav Vitous
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After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.
Kang Chol-hwan
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I got a promo of 'Nichts Muss' in what would have been 2002 or 2003 and fell totally in love with it after listening to it on an airplane that took me to Australia via Taipei and Kuala Lumpur.
John Darnielle
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
Seneca the Younger
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What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.
Clara Hughes
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When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.
Banana Yoshimoto
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
William Golding
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I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.
Gemma Arterton
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I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?
Blake Judd
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At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.
Kristen Wiig
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Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.
Sandra Tsing Loh
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I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.
Paul Weller Incognito
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Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.
Jhumpa Lahiri