Listening Quotes
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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!
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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.
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I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.
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I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
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A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
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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.
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
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If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.
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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.
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You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
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There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
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As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.
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Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
