Listening famous quotes

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
-- A. J. McLean

#Night #Listening #Bed

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
-- Aaron Copland

#Symphony #Listening #Cows

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
-- Aaron Copland

#Music #Thinking #Listening

I really like listening to music in my car.
-- Aaron Neville

#Car #Listening #Listening To Music

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Listening #Mind #Stories

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
-- Adam Brody

#Worry #Listening #Want

The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Past #Listening #Might

I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, 'You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God.'
-- Adele

#Anxiety #Listening #Gorgeous

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
-- Adyashanti

#Space #Silence #Listening

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.
-- Ajahn Amaro

#Cutting #Thinking #Listening

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Meditation #Understanding #Listening

The art of life is loving and listening to one another.
-- Akiane Kramarik

#Art #Listening #Life Is

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
-- Alan Alda

#Change #Real #Listening

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
-- Alan Alda

#Inspirational #Listening #Able

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.
-- Alan Lewis

#Listening #Next #Chance

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
-- Alan Rickman

#Focus #Listening #Theatre

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
-- Alan Rickman

#Listening #Actors #Want

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
-- Alan Vega

#Listening #Jazz #Classical Music

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!
-- Alan Vega

#Blow #Listening #Coltrane

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
-- Alan Watts

#Eye #Perception #Listening

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
-- Alan Watts

#Past #Listening #Life Is Like

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.
-- Alan Watts

#Thinking #Long #Listening

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
-- Albert Ellis

#Years #Listening #Six

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
-- Albert Guinon

#Relationship #People #Listening

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Bad Day #Simple #Listening

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.
-- Alex Borstein

#Listening #Trying #Sound

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.
-- Alexander Crummell

#Soul #Listening #Utterance

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
-- Alexander Smith

#Good Luck #Listening #Hug

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening.  Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
-- Alfie Kohn

#Teacher #Talking #Listening

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
-- Alfred Doblin

#Listening #Different #Unhappiness

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.
-- Alice Cooper

#Thinking #Listening #Next Steps

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
-- Alice Sebold

#Listening #Shy #Input

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.
-- Alison Krauss

#Song #Listening #Tape

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
-- Alistair Cooke

#America #People #Listening

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Writing #Listening #Care

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.
-- Allison Janney

#Eye #Listening #Acting

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Boredom #Silence #Listening

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.
-- Amy Grant

#Song #Unique #Listening

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.
-- Amy Poehler

#Thinking #Talking #Listening

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.
-- Amy Sedaris

#Listening #Shy #Persons

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Dream #Song #Listening

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
-- Andrew Harvey

#Heart #Listening #World

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
-- Andrew Mason

#Listening #Sainthood #Woe

I love listening to games on the radio... you can't see what's going on
-- Andy Townsend

#Games #Listening #Radio

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
-- Aneurin Bevan

#Political #Listening #Speech

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.
-- Angelo Sotira

#Listening

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture.
-- Ann Coulter

#Ideas #Feelings #Listening

I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything.
-- Ann Rinaldi

#People #Listening #Mouths

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Hard Work #Heart #Listening

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Listening #Hearing #Interviews

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.
-- Anna Kavan

#Silence #Listening #Quiet

I believe in listening to what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
-- Anne Lamott

#Believe #Heart #Listening

If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)
-- Anne Lamott

#Taken #Home #Listening

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.
-- Anne Rice

#Listening #Diving #Facts

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
-- Anne Rice

#Song #Listening #Favorite Song

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
-- Annette Funicello

#Black And White #Years #Listening

Being creative is not so much the desire  to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
-- Anni Albers

#Creative #Listening #Desire

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Hate #Listening #Criticism

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.
-- Armando Iannucci

#Journey #Meditation #Listening

The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Technology #Listening #Doe

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
-- Arthur Kleinman

#Writing #Listening #Stories

Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
-- Arthur Kleinman

#Writing #Listening #Stories

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
-- Arthur Smith

#Awards #Listening #Radio

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
-- Audre Lorde

#Honesty #People #Listening

When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.
-- Audrey McLaughlin

#Listening

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Listening #World #Used

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Long #Listening #Pieces

To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down - listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.
-- Austin Mahone

#Song #Laughing #Listening

When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
-- Avicii

#House #Listening #Eric

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
-- Avicii

#Dad #Listening #Rays

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
-- Avicii

#House #Listening #House Music

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.
-- Avril Lavigne

#Growing Up #Listening #Church

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
-- Ayelet Waldman

#Thinking #Listening #Despair

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.
-- Babyface

#Moving #Listening #Fans

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.
-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Responsibility #Listening #Way

Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.
-- Barry Nalebuff

#People #Listening #Important

If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!
-- Bel Kaufman

#Teacher #Listening #Looks

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
-- Ben Harper

#Spiritual #Listening #Blind

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
-- Ben Stein

#Lying #Listening #Bed

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Listening #Unions #Habit

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
-- Bernadette Peters

#Listening #Wagner

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
-- Bernard Lown

#Art #Views #Listening

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.
-- Bernie Krause

#Nature #Space #Listening

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
-- Beth Ditto

#Play #Knowing #Listening

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
-- Beverly Sills

#Long #Listening #Opera

Hear much; speak little.
-- Bias of Priene

#Listening #Speech #Littles

Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
-- Bill Cosby

#Children #Listening #Trying

There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.
-- Bill de Blasio

#Strong #People #Listening

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
-- Bill Frisell

#Listening #Musician #Sound

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
-- Bill Laswell

#Moving #Long #Listening

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.
-- Bill Maher

#Fire #Community #Listening

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
-- Billy Collins

#School #Listening #Radio

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
-- Bjork

#Cds #Listening #Way

There's more to life than listening to rock music.
-- Black Francis

#Rocks #Listening #Rock Music

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Heart #Listening #Ears

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.
-- Bo Burnham

#Ideas #Listening #Audience

Don't be a VICTIM of negative self talk - remember YOU are listening.
-- Bob Proctor

#Self #Listening #Negative

At the end of the day, you have to make sure you're at least listening to what your head is telling you, what your heart is telling you. That's hard to do when there are a million other people shouting as loud as they can.
-- Bode Miller

#Heart #People #Listening

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.
-- Brandon Boyd

#Writing #Expression #Listening

....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.
-- Brandon Mull

#Differences #Listening #Hearing