Listen Quotes
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I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van Morrison on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.
Andrew Loog Oldham
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What's important is to listen before you react.
Florence Pugh
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The U.S.A. was outraged, and loudly said so to everyone, whether they would listen or not. But there wasn’t much America could do about it, having sacrificed our space program on the altars of economic necessity and eternal war.
Elizabeth Bear
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I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
Regina Spektor
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Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.
Gary Myers
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Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.
Darrell Johnson
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Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
James Hubert Blake
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We look, but we don't really see; we hear, but we don't really listen.
Gerald Causse
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Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
Rumi
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It's good to listen to lots of different stuff, just whatever you like. The first two records I ever bought were Alice Cooper, Killer and Jethro Tull, Aqualung. That's two weird records to begin with, but I think they hold up well.
James Hetfield Metallica
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The songs just sing themselves to me. They kind of write themselves. I just stand back and listen.
Cindy Walker
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Listen to yourself, hear your own footsteps, your breaths, your heartbeats, oh, how many rhythms you make as you come and go! you are an orchestra.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.
Walt Whitman
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God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
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I love talking to people, and I'll listen to what they have to say, and if they have ideas or something like that, I'll put you to work.
John 5 LOSER
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He who has ears for hearing, let him listen.
Benedict of Nursia
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Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
Dan Castellaneta
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My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.
Melissa Etheridge
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As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
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It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.
Michael Dorn
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I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.
Saoirse Ronan
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Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
Sharon Creech