Listening Quotes

• I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Up
  • English

• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Baseball

• I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Song
  • Conversation

• My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

  

  Mohandas Dewese
  • Live
  • Listening

• A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Listening
  • View

• I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Feeling

• The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Attention

• When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Listening
  • More
  • Tells

• Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me-or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant'.

  

  Lorde
  • Thinking
  • Rap
  • Around

• My dad is Dominican, my mother's Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you're cool.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Music
  • Mother

• I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Listening
  • Grew
  • Crew

• There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Frustration

• I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Think
  • Years

• Usher is definitely somebody I came up listening to.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Up
  • Listening

• I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Music
  • Night

• I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • People
  • Game
  • Listening

• That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in your sleep, you're always thinking about it in the back of your mind. The true writing - when you're officially writing - that's just when its front of mind, but its always there. You're always listening for a hook.

  

  Charlie Worsham
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Mind

• A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Listening

• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Music
  • Live
  • Feel

• What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Listening
  • Nobody
  • Left

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