Listening Quotes

• I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reading

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

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Leadership
  • inspirational

• 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
  • Music
  • Important
  • Kids

• If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Time
  • Listening

• Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. The practice of yoga is the practice of meditation-or inner listening-in the poses and meditations, as well as all day long. It's a matter of listening inwardly for guidance all the time, and then daring enough and trusting enough to do as you are prompted to do.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
  • Meditation
  • Guidance
  • Stillness

• I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

  

  Kiki Smith
  • Art
  • Listening

• 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

• 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

• We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • World
  • Music
  • Silence

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Music
  • Running
  • Listening

• 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
  • Up
  • Music
  • Latin

• 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
  • Past
  • Listening
  • Trump

• 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
  • Music
  • Listening
  • I Think

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

  

  Catherine McCormack
  • Voice
  • Tired
  • Last

• I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys coming back, spring training, being around them, you get a chance to get to know them. So I always think you learn a lot by listening.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Training
  • Listening
  • Spring

• My older brother gave me a cassette tape of Mr. Bungle, and I couldn't stop listening to it. I used to drive around Colorado in a Mustang II - it was when they got away from the muscle-car Mustangs, so it was sort of old lady. I couldn't go above 45 mph in that car, but I would drive around listening to Mr. Bungle.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Stop
  • Car
  • Brother

• 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
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• 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

• With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Listening
  • Healing

• I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • People
  • Why
  • Listening

• If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Source

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