Listening Quotes · Page 82

Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs…

— Charles Bukowski

I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if…

— Girl Talk

Thank you for listening. Thank you for abiding me. And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, I…

— Frank Deford

Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people…

— Plato

You probably can overcome what you're going through from listening to my music.

— YoungBoy Never Broke Again

Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.

— Paula Pell

I try to take whatever I can from the songs I grew up listening to, these vibed-out pop numbers, and make them…

— Adam Granduciel

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

— Jay Baer

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

— Roger McGuinn

I liked Bruno Mars from way back before he even debuted. I thought he had a beautiful voice and became a huge…

— Lee Tae-min

Learning is not automatic. You do not automatically know how to read because you turn five. Most of us are sensitive to…

— Marion D. Hanks

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking…

— Norah Jones

(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a…

— Stefan Zweig

You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun?…

— H. R. McMaster

I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New…

— Lenny Kravitz

If you're hungry, God is feeding. You know, if you're listening; He is speaking. And I think sometimes trouble and intense hardship…

— Darlene Zschech

For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed…

— Shannon Hale

I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music,…

— Patty Griffin

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

— Seneca the Younger

Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place…

— Toni Morrison

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

— Adrian Younge

Become better listeners. Practice the art of listening in everything you do. Not just listening to yourself and your body, but listening…

— Rodney Yee

I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.

— William Fitzsimmons

I wanted to find a way to speak for people. It was important for me, because so many people spoke for me…

— Emeli Sande

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large…

— David Sylvian

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I like driving around town and listening to new records.

— Hunter Hayes

“Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

Then with Lucy [Hale], her little thing that I kind of learned from her is her country music because she’s obsessed with…

— Shay Mitchell

I love listening to pop radio.

— Washed Out

A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as…

— Linda Hogan

It [The Esemblist] is also about the generation of audience members that are watching shows and listening to us at the same…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

Throwing money on the fire is normally not the solution to every problem. You put the fire out by listening to the…

— Shahid Khan

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

— Bill Watterson

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

— John Cage

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

— John Stuart Mill

I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one…

— Charlie Sheen

How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

— Hafez

I love listening to old school stuff. I listen to some new cats out here, but I'm really into, like, Tech N9ne…

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to…

— Todd Rundgren