Listening Quotes

• In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

  

  Neil Clark Warren
  • Listening
  • Conflict
  • Gains

• Before you speak, listen.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Listening
  • Speak

• The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting.

  

  Karina Longworth
  • People
  • Movie
  • Political

• 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
  • Music
  • Friend
  • Pleasure

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

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Listening

• 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
  • People
  • Listening
  • Feelings

• 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
  • Kind
  • Parent
  • Lucky

• 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
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Listening

• Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Beatles

• Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.

  

  Peter Roskam
  • Listening
  • Solutions
  • Republicans

• 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.

  

  Alice Bag
  • People
  • Singing
  • Abuse

• Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Men
  • Listening

• Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Listening
  • Grew Up
  • Plan B

• In my musically formative years, I grew up listening to Suzy Bogguss, Trisha Yearwood, Terri Clark.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Up
  • Listening

• 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
  • Book
  • Imagination
  • Painting

• I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Home
  • Engineering
  • Songwriting

• When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Listening

• Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Thinking
  • Listening

• The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Talking

• I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Listening

• Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Listening

• Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

  

  Paul Newman
  • Enemy
  • Honor
  • President

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Language
  • Sense

• You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • World
  • Change
  • Listening

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