Listening Quotes
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There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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Listening only truly happens with an open heart and a closed mouth.
Katrina Mayer
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Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.
George Szell
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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.
Albert Guinon
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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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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
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I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
Hilary Mantel
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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
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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
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You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.
Mike Yaconelli
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
Walt Whitman
