Listening Quotes
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.
Ernest Gaines -
May you hear the voice of wisdom. Listening, may you act with trust.
Charlene Costanzo
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It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
Ethan Zuckerman -
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 -
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 -
We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
Diane Ackerman -
Your subconscious protects you. It's all about listening to it.
Nitin Sawhney -
I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
Herbie Hancock
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The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.
Eric Garcetti -
Don't be a VICTIM of negative self talk - remember YOU are listening.
Bob Proctor -
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
Paul Merton -
Men shout to avoid listening to one another.
Miguel de Unamuno -
The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
Evan Esar -
A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
Evan Esar
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Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.
Rick Rubin -
Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
Esther Dyson -
Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
Judy Blume -
I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together.
Will Ferrell -
When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.
Steve Martin
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He was listening so I don't remember.
Eugene Ormandy -
You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.
Sufjan Stevens -
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
Carter Burwell