Listening Quotes

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more.

I really like listening to music in my car.

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

It's about listening first, then selling.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

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

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

I grew up listening to English music.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

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

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

That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

All of my style came from listening to records.

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

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

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Never stop listening to your audience.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

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.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

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

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

I like being unconventional.

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Unless the radio is on, I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

Listening is the essence of anything.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

I love listening to classical music.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.