Listen Quotes
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Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
Randy Houser
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It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.
Art Blakey
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Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the finding is the getting lost. And when you’re lost you start to look around and to listen.
Deena Metzger
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I listen to older music like AC/DC.
Paris Jackson
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I mostly just listen to my body.
Gigi Hadid
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Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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We think Cyclorama - our most recent studio album - is a great record and everyone that has taken the time to listen to agrees with me.
James Young Styx
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What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans
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Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.
Ashoka
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
Sam Shepard
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It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
Hermann Hesse
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
Epictetus
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I listen to my own music now because I'm busy writing now--I started hearing some things--I'm writing all the time. When you write you have to listen. Writing music is very difficult. At a certain level the work begins to dictate itself. I write the piano score first, then I'll set down a bass line. Sometimes I'll give the bass the bottom and I'll play subordinate tones. I use very close harmonies. I like strong rhythmic ideas, too.
Ahmad Jamal
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You just have to stay focused, keep working and don't listen to the media.
Orlando Brown
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When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.
Washed Out
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There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
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He who obeys, does not listen to himself!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm okay I'm okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause i'm telling you the truth I mean this i'm okay. Trust me... I'm not okay... Well okay i'm not okay. I'm not o-f cking-kay
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
Linda Ronstadt
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You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.
Miuccia Prada
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I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.
Stevie Wonder