Listening Quotes
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In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.
Ashley McBryde
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But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.
William Cullen Bryant
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By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
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Before you speak, listen.
William Arthur Ward
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Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.
David Sills
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We have to start listening to nature now.
Kevin Spacey
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I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.
Ricky Reed
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
Carson McCullers
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush
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I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
Scott Speedman
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A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.
William Arthur Ward
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Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in unpredictable ways, and comes back out in a big mess.
Ezra Furman
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Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
Will Self
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I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.
Bad Bunny
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Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening
Terence McKenna
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I want to be very authentic when I perform, because I feel like I owe that to people listening. You can't go through the motions on music like this. You are making people feel a certain way, that you are not feeling yourself. It's like saying "I want you guys to cry, but I don't really care," which isn't right.
William Fitzsimmons
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Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.
Peter Roskam
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I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.
Dawn Lundy Martin
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Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.
Herb Alpert
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I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
Thomas Kinkade