Listening Quotes
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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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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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I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.
Ricky Reed
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
Meg Wheatley
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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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If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.
Sue Grafton
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The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.
Sean O'Casey
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When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.
Herb Alpert
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Listening only truly happens with an open heart and a closed mouth.
Katrina Mayer
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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 don't mind either one crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.
Bill Burr
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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
