Listening Quotes
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I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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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
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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
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If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.
John Haley Sims
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Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
Stephen Carter
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You can't fake listening. It shows.
Raquel Welch
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I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
George Carlin
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All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.
Nicholas Sparks
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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
Rabindranath Tagore
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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
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Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.
J Balvin
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People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.
Seth Meyers
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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
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We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
William Arthur Ward
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There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.
Sebastian Horsley
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
Seneca the Younger
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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
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I went to karate for about four years, and I learned a lot about focus and listening very good.
Erik Per Sullivan
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His guard was up now and he wasn't listening; he was only angry because here was a world he could not enter and so he had to disbelieve in its existence. He fell back on the world he knew.
John Steinbeck
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Hillary Clinton was in rural America during the Iowa caucuses, but I think the nature of a campaign makes it more difficult once you become the candidate. There's a messaging opportunity here throughout, not just in the election season, but before the election, the opportunity to underscore what government is doing in a positive way in partnership with rural folks. I think it's a messaging issue. It's being there physically, talking to folks, listening to people, respecting and admiring what they do, and then making sure that they understand precisely what the partnership is.
Tom Vilsack
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Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
William Bell
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The 'Maybe Memories' album I remember having and listening until it broke. I remember it skipped one day; two or three songs wouldn't play on my CD player because I listened to it so much.
Kellin Quinn
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A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.
Alex Scally Beach House
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I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
George Michael