Listening Quotes

• Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

  

  J Balvin
  • Listening

• Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Guy
  • Sleep
  • 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 think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a comeback. My brother in law is an example- before he was listening to some country music, even some of that awful nu-metal stuff , but there weren't many options really.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Real

• When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Song
  • Bands
  • Dropping

• Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • Listening

• I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke. He is the most brilliant guitar player from right here in Wilmington, DE.

  

  David Bromberg
  • Player
  • Sometimes
  • Wilmington

• Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

  

  Deborah Meier
  • Learning
  • Listening
  • Teaching

• We all need songs that bring out our inner swagger just listening to it.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Listening

• I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Leadership
  • inspirational

• I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

  

  Moira Kelly
  • Classical
  • Mostly
  • Sixteen

• 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.

  

  Warwick Thornton
  • World
  • Film
  • Heard

• I'm not one for sitting around listening to my own music, because I tend to cringe and think that I could have done better. I also suffer from red light syndrome quite a lot. I tend to narrow my thinking when the red light goes on to record. Instead of just relaxing and playing and emoting, I think of time being wasted so I won't take a chance on something. Consequently, when I hear it back, I think, "Why the hell did I play it so safe on that piece of music when I could have really opened up?" Well, it's because of not wanting to make a mistake.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Thinking
  • Suffering
  • Mistake

• 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
  • War
  • True
  • Listening

• One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Wants
  • Editor
  • Reads

• I think Justin Bieber and Zayn have both been listening to me a lot, and they basically wanna be me.

  

  James Arthur
  • Listening

• Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Up
  • Kids
  • 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

• The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

  

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Spreading

• 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
  • Money
  • Way
  • Responsibility

• For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Period

• If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Listening
  • Boys
  • Blink

• My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes and many hours of video footage.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Listening

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