Listening Quotes
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By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
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I learned at a very early age, listening to those around my family, that in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post.
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When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.
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You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
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There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
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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.
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In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.
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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.
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Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.
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Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
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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.
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Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.
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Before you speak, listen.
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Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening
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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.
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If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.
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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.
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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
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Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
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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.
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I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances. It was therapy sessions for someone who couldn't afford to go to therapy, a way to release my frustration, my inhibition. When I was little, growing up in an abusive household, I felt like I didn't have a voice. Suddenly I was on stage and people were watching me and listening to me, so even if I was singing about something that didn't have to do with abuse, when I was on stage I could express all of the anger, the rage.
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Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.
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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.
