Quotes About Listening

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

I started producing when I was listening to The Diplomats. The first time I heard Cam'ron was 'Dead or Alive.'

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

If you're listening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. It's good for your health and for your productivity. If we all do that, we move to a state that I like to think will be sound living in the world.

Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.

I think that a lot of people are going so wrong by analysing music too much and learning from a totally different perspective from the way I learned. I mean, I just learned by listening to people. People I learned from learned by listening to people.

There are all different types of people out there who are going to say all kinds of things, online and in real life. The important thing is to know which ones to listen to.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

It's such a changing industry, and I realize that it's become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a full record. It's the artist's story captured in 12 or 15 songs.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

I've always taken direction pretty well.

I work directly for the boss. I listen to everybody, but I have one man whose voice is louder than everybody else's.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.

It's always better to treat those with whom you disagree with compassion - if not for compassion's sake, then because it makes it much more likely that they'll actually be willing to listen to what you have to say.

I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.

In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.