Listening Quotes
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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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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
Michael Caine
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We have to start listening to nature now.
Kevin Spacey
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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.
Eyvind Kang
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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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In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.
Ashley McBryde
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Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
Will Self
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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.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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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Before you speak, listen.
William Arthur Ward
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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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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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Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.
Peter Roskam
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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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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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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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Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening
Terence McKenna
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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
Tony Blair
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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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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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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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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
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
Melissa Leo