Listening Quotes

• 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

• I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Music
  • Travel
  • Listening

• I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Listening
  • Gang

• My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Long
  • Choices
  • Danger

• 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
  • Past
  • Danger
  • Computer

• A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • People
  • Today
  • Vinyl

• I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways.

  

  Lisa O'Hare
  • Amazing
  • Listening
  • Emotional

• Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Criticism

• I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.

  

  James McBride
  • Important
  • Air
  • Listening

• When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • People
  • Listening

• I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

  

  Mac Miller
  • School
  • Rock
  • Listening

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

  

  J Balvin
  • 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

• 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

• 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
  • Literature
  • Facts
  • Lists

• I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Dramatic

• Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Listening
  • Wells

• I still love listening to the old stuff - Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, you know. I stick to the old school stuff, but I love Mark Ronson. I love John Legend.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Love
  • Stuff
  • Old School

• The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Listening

• In a relationship you have to communicate, which means listening to her talk. Ladies, you fake orgasms. We fake listening.

  

  Alonzo Bodden
  • Relationship
  • Listening
  • Talk

• People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.

  

  Seth Meyers
  • Listening
  • Appreciate
  • Jokes

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

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Listening

• The ads that podcasts manage to sell tell you a lot about who they think is listening. They include services that promise to make your investment portfolio ethical, deliver exotic, ready meals to your home, or guarantee better sleep thanks to luxury bed linen.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Promise

• 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
  • Want
  • Lyrics
  • Impression

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