Listening Quotes

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

  

  Peter Roskam
  • Listening
  • Solutions
  • Republicans

• By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.

  

  David "Doc" Searls
  • Listening
  • Marketing
  • Talk

• Listening only truly happens with an open heart and a closed mouth.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Open

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

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Listening
  • Grew Up
  • Plan B

• Everybody in the Soviet Union knew the expression “this is not a phone conversation,” which expressed a wish to discuss something in person because they were afraid somebody else might be listening. The “somebody else” was the state and its vast networks of informers.

  

  Andrei Soldatov
  • Listening
  • Conversation
  • Phone

• Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

  

  George Szell
  • Listening
  • Improvement
  • Mozart

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

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Talking

• There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Listening

• 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
  • Trying
  • Car
  • Certain

• 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
  • Listening
  • Improvisation

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Listening

• 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
  • Listening
  • Musician

• 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
  • Listening
  • Hold
  • Imaginary

• 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
  • Children
  • Memories
  • Grandmother

• 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
  • Everything
  • Building
  • Anything

• To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Experience
  • Listening
  • Composer

• He was listening so I don't remember.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Listening
  • Don't Remember

• Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Men
  • Fellows
  • Flattering

• 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
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Mean

• 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
  • Things
  • Christ
  • Happens

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

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • World
  • Change
  • Listening

• 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
  • Inspiration
  • Ocean
  • Human Heart

• 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'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Sometimes
  • Listening

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