Listening Quotes

• Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

  

  William Cowper
  • Music
  • Spirit
  • Silence

• My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

  

  Casey Abrams
  • Singing
  • Jazz
  • Obscure

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

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • People
  • Why
  • Listening

• What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.

  

  Joseph Fiennes
  • Listening
  • Classic
  • Following

• Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor. But that 5% that nags at all of us - of what's going wrong in this country - I think is best thought out not in your own head but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Country
  • Americans
  • Mayor

• Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

  

  Reid Scott
  • Attention
  • Acting
  • React

• 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
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Fans

• There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • People
  • Character
  • Greek

• You can't fake listening. It shows.

  

  Raquel Welch
  • People
  • Listening

• I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

  

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
  • Political
  • Mouths
  • Thermometers

• 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 tried not to, but I couldn't help it. But, he's like a living legend, and you can't believe he's sitting right in front of you, you know? You grow up listening to him, and he's got so many great songs, and all those feelings just piled up on me.

  

  Camile Velasco
  • Living
  • Him
  • Legend

• It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Playing

• I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • School
  • Listening

• You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Character
  • Desire

• In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.

  

  Rich Eisen
  • Together
  • Conversation
  • Argument

• The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the time it gets onstage, each song has about one hundred hours of way too much mothering gone into it. So when you see us play live, that is the product of ninety days of practice, over a year of writing, listening to demos on the weekends after practice.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Weekend

• By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Listening

• I think listening to the director is the number one strength an actor should have.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Listening

• But I do know that there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can’t always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Help
  • Interest
  • Difference

• Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Listening
  • Said
  • Hearing

• Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Writing
  • Inspire

• I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Play
  • Difference
  • Conversation

• I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am. I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!

  

  Wendy Williams
  • Opinion
  • Listening
  • Knows

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