Listening Quotes
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I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.
Jens Lekman
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I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke about real stuff that was happening in their life and everyone else's life.
Anne-Marie
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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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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
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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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With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
Catherine Doherty
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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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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
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We all need songs that bring out our inner swagger just listening to it.
Andy Grammer
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The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
Evan Esar
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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
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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
Michael Caine
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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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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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I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.
Maria Bello
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During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign.
Barack Obama
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I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
Kiki Smith
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I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.
Prince Royce
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Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.
Andra Day
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I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening.
Lidia Bastianich
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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
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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.
M. Scott Peck
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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
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy