Listening Quotes

• A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Done
  • Song
  • Fire

• The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Important
  • May
  • Particular

• When I talk, it shouldn't just be black girls listening.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Black
  • Listening

• Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Positive

• When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy.

  

  William Orbit
  • Parent
  • Uncomfortable
  • Discouraged

• We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.

  

  Brett Young
  • People
  • Music
  • Awesome

• We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

  

  Clint Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

  

  Jose Bergamin
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Listening

• I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, "Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week." But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Artist
  • Week

• Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Listening

• Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.

  

  Tom Heinsohn
  • Driving
  • Controversy
  • Brutal

• I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Listening
  • Speak
  • Imagine

• Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable sic as it is interesting.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Attention

• In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Listening
  • Students
  • Teachers

• Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Crafts
  • Reacting

• Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

  

  Nancy Mairs
  • God
  • Listening
  • Speaks

• Religion has been defined as designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the parables of Jesus as doing the afflicting. Therefore, if we hear a parable and think, 'I really like that' or, worse, fail to take any challenge, we are not listening well enough.

  

  Amy-Jill Levine
  • Religion
  • Listening
  • Parable

• I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.

  

  Maria Bello
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Running

• How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Regret
  • Fine

• Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death type stuff.

  

  David Pajo
  • Stuff
  • Metal
  • Gotten

• 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 would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what I'm saying or not; and I write them like that specifically. You know, I have my views; I don't feel the need to have people have the same views as me. So if they find the meaning in the songs and it's the same meaning as the one I intended then fine and dandy and if they don't, they don't.

  

  David W. Marsden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• 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

• The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Reading

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