Listening Quotes · Page 205

That's basically all my act is - it's just listening all the time and watching for what people do with their hands…

— Peter Kay

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

— Hoda Kotb

And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

— John Scofield

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long…

— Harmony Korine

And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

— Shannon Hale

I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my…

— Linus Pauling

If there's anything I have learned, it's to sort of be sensitive to what - to how much - to how creative…

— DJ /rupture

When it comes time to where the new album gets closer, I start singing the song a cappella; I'll preview it on…

— Brett Eldredge

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

— Tom Peters

When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew…

— Colin Meloy

If someone else was in the room, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing what I wanted to do. I would try to play…

— Juana Molina

I grew up listening to New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe because of my parents.

— Caleb McLaughlin

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as…

— Michael Gungor

Even though I was a rock 'n' roll fan, hearing the raw blues was like listening to music on a much deeper…

— Rory Gallagher

[Dancing] was just a nice way of expressing myself, listening to music, and being able to move around and be free, but…

— Jillian Hervey

Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a…

— Peter Drucker

In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or…

— Toni Packer

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

— Michael Bennett

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When everyone was listening to pop music I was listening to Monty Python records.

— Richard Herring

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I push throughthe wind to the north-facing window and stand before it. 'I will bring her back!' I shout into the darkness.…

— Marianne Curley

When you are grounded in the present - feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas…

— Debbie Ford

My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes…

— Judy Garland