100+ Listening Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.152, University of Virginia Press

topic: 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

topic: Good Luck, Listening, Hug

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

- Alfie Kohn

topic: 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

topic: Listening, Different, Unhappiness, Listening To Others, Walking Alone

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

topic: Thinking, Listening, Next Steps, Easy Going, Seventies

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

- Alice Sebold

topic: 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

topic: Song, Listening, Tape

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

- Alistair Cooke

topic: 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

topic: Writing, Listening, Care, Just Believe In Yourself, Beauty Of Life

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

topic: Eye, Listening, Acting

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Boredom, Silence, Listening, Listening To Others, Effective 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

source: "Amy Grant: 'Somewhere Down the Road'". CBNmusic Interview, www.cbn.com. October 16, 2013.

topic: Song, Unique, Listening

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

- Amy Poehler

topic: 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

topic: Listening, Shy, Persons, Shy Person

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

topic: Dream, Song, Listening

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

- Andrew Mason

topic: Listening, Sainthood, Woe

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

- Andy Townsend

topic: 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

topic: Political, Listening, Speech, Chamberlain

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

- Angelo Sotira

topic: Listening, Displacement

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

topic: Ideas, Feelings, Listening, Crackpots, Uneasy Feelings

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

source: Ann Rinaldi (1993). “The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: 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

topic: Hard Work, Heart, Listening, Touchy

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

topic: Listening, Hearing, Interviews

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

- Anna Kavan

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Listening, Diving, Facts, Diving Deep

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

- Anne Rice

topic: Song, Listening, Favorite Song, Your Favorite

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

topic: Black And White, Years, Listening, Mesmerizing

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

- Anni Albers

topic: Creative, Listening, Desire, Textiles, Dictation

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

topic: Hate, Listening, Criticism

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

- Armando Iannucci

topic: 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

topic: Technology, Listening, Doe

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

- Arthur Kleinman

topic: 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

topic: Writing, Listening, Stories, New Paths

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

topic: Awards, Listening, Radio, Award Ceremonies

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

- Audre Lorde

topic: 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

source: "Capt. Chesley Sullenberger". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2012.

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: 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

source: "Austin Mahone On His New Album, Touring With Taylor Swift And Why He’s NOT The Next Justin Bieber (Exclusive)". Interview With Taylor Trudon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

topic: 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

topic: House, Listening, Eric, Luke, Daft Punk

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

- Avicii

topic: 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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Moving, Listening, Fans, Just Keep Moving Forward, Keep Moving Forward

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

topic: Responsibility, Listening, Way

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

- Barry Nalebuff

topic: People, Listening, Important, Suppliers

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

source: Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.221, Open Road Media

topic: Teacher, Listening, Looks

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

- Ben Harper

topic: Spiritual, Listening, Blind, Spiritual Music

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

- Ben Stein

topic: 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

topic: Listening, Unions, Habit

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

- Bernadette Peters

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: 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

topic: Art, Views, Listening, Quintessential, Lost Art

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

source: Bernie Krause (2012). “The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places”, p.15, Profile Books

topic: 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

topic: Play, Knowing, Listening, Starting Out

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

topic: Long, Listening, Opera

Hear much; speak little.

- Bias of Priene

topic: Listening, Speech, Littles

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

- Bill Cosby

topic: 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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Strong, People, Listening, Keep An Open Mind

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

- Bill Frisell

topic: Listening, Musician, Sound, Listening To Others

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

topic: Moving, Long, Listening, Really Deep, Ambient

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

- Bill Maher

topic: 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

topic: 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

topic: Cds, Listening, Way

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

- Black Francis

source: "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.

topic: Rocks, Listening, Rock Music

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Heart, Listening, Ears

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

- Bo Burnham

topic: Ideas, Listening, Audience, No Idea

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

- Bob Proctor

source: FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 16, 2017

topic: Self, Listening, Negative, Self Talk

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

topic: 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

topic: Writing, Expression, Listening, Natural Forms

....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

source: Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2010). “Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

topic: Differences, Listening, Hearing

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

- Brandon Routh

source: "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

topic: Talking, Listening, Action, Talking And Listening

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

- Branford Marsalis

topic: Successful, People, Listening

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Reading, Talking, Listening

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

- Brenda Ueland

source: Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

topic: Thinking, People, Listening

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Believe, Listening, Alive

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Listening, Doe, Beloved

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Talking, Listening, Roles

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Thinking, Listening

Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners; that is, the kindest, least censorious, least bossy people you know. It is because by pouring out your problem to them, you then know what to do about it yourself.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: People, Advice, Listening, Bossy

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

- Brett Eldredge

topic: Grandpa, Car, Listening

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

- Brett Ratner

source: "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 07, 2007.

topic: Listening, Acting, Hardest

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

- Brian Eno

topic: Kids, Listening

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

- Brian Eno

topic: Letting Go, Listening, Want, Ambient Music

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

- Brian Eno

topic: Cooking, Listening, Radio

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

- Brian Eno

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Emotional, Listening, Important, Live Music

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

- Brian Eno

topic: Listening, Surrender

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

- Brian Eno

topic: Interesting, Listening, Attention, Ambient, Ambient Music

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

- Brian Ferneyhough

topic: Listening, Sound, Pieces

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

- Brian May

topic: People, Intuition, Listening, Listening To Others, Sheet Music

Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Boss, Listening, Loyal, Co Worker

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Talking, Listening, Habit

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

- Brittany Murphy

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Choices, Listening, Important, Brittany

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Heart, Listening, Mind

'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

- Bruno Mars

topic: Dad, Rocks, Listening

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Inspirational, Respect, Listening, Listening To Others, Great Respect

If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

- Bud Grant

topic: Player, Coaching, Listening

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

- Burn Gorman

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Listening, Documentaries

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

- Burning Spear

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Listening, Use

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Intellectual, Secret, Listening, Snobbery, Wireless

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Jobs, Men, Listening, Media Training

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Jobs, Listening, Too Much

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

- Campbell Newman

source: "New Qld Premier calls for greater independence from Commonwealth". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. April 13, 2012.

topic: Listening, Gold, Example, Carbon Tax

So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Empathy, Creative, Listening

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Men, Listening, Inability, Effective Listening, Inability To Communicate

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

- Carla Bley

topic: Listening, Important, Receiving

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

- Carlo Rovelli

topic: Ignorance, Listening, Today

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

- Carly Fiorina

topic: Funny, Art, Listening

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

- Carole King

topic: Inspiring, Listening, Energy, Oldies

I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.

- Caroline Norton

topic: Voice, Listening, Heard

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

- Carrie Underwood

topic: Teenager, Rocks, Listening

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

- Carter Burwell

topic: Listening, Film

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

- Catherine Doherty

topic: Communication, Healing, Listening

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

- Catherine McCormack

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Tired, Voice, Listening, Last Day

Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.

- Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

topic: Eye, Listening, Asking, Opening Your Eyes

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

- Chanel Iman

source: "Exclusive: Chanel Iman Behind-the-Scenes for Skullcandy". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 28, 2012.

topic: Fun, Listening, World, Taste In Music

May you hear the voice of wisdom. Listening, may you act with trust.

- Charlene Costanzo

topic: Voice, Listening, May

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Listening, Knowing God, God Is Dead

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

- Charles Churchill

source: Charles Churchill (1892). “The Poetical Works of Charles, Churchill”

topic: Play, Listening, Wonder, Shakespeare Play

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

- Charles Duhigg

topic: Song, Expression, Listening, Personal Expression

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

- Charles Durning

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Listening, Acting

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

- Charles E. Burchfield

topic: Color, Tree, Listening

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Giving Up, Reading, Listening

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

- Charles Mingus

topic: Symphony, Listening, Attention, Symphony Orchestras, Brahms

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Listening

I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

- Chelsea Clinton

topic: Listening, Body, Bigs

I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

- Chris Hardwick

topic: People, Listening

Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.

- Chris Murray

topic: Discipline, Listening, Moments

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

- Chris Ofili

source: "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.

topic: Hip Hop, Listening, Enemy, Public Enemies, Sampling

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

- Chris Vance

topic: Media, Listening, Storytelling

My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

- Christopher Nolan

source: "Complete Batman Begins L.A. Junket Roundtable Interview: Christopher Nolan & Emma Thomas". www.grouchoreviews.com.

topic: Giving, Listening, Trying

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

- Christopher Reeve

topic: Thinking, Voice, Listening

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

- Chuck Berry

source: "Chuck Berry: Music legend given rock 'n' roll sendoff", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2017.

topic: People, Listening

It's safe to talk openly and honestly with people because they're not really listening.

- Chuck Lorre

topic: People, Listening, Safe

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

- Chuck Mangione

topic: Writing, People, Listening

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Expectations, Listening, Trying

What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.

- Clara Hughes

topic: Passion, Heart, Listening

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

- Clara Schumann

topic: Joy, Listening, Composing

When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity...

- Claude Debussy

topic: Past, Symphony, Listening, Sun Rise, Debussy

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

- Clint Eastwood

source: "Clint Eastwood Describes His Near-Death Experience, Says 'American Sniper' Is Anti-War (Exclusive)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

topic: Art, Ego, Listening

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

- Coco Lee

topic: Listening, Sound, Taiwan

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

- Colin Hay

topic: Cutting, Thinking, Listening

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

- Connie Willis

source: Connie Willis (2011). “The Doomsday Book”, p.326, Spectra

topic: Tired, People, Listening

I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.