Quotes About Listening

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself.

My mom played me all kinds of music, from Ella Fitzgerald to Celine Dion. I listened to everything growing up, old and new.

Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.

The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

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

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

My music is colorful. The intention for it is to be good for whoever's listening to it, and my style is good for me.

Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

When a new record came out, the world would stop that day, and we would sit in somebody's house - whoever had the best stereo system - and sit in the middle of the two speakers and listen and discuss and listen again and go over the album notes and get out the guitar and start playing it and discuss and play some more.

Whoever has a next-level ear needs to be an Eardrummer.

My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Loving someone whose ideas we find detestable can seem impossible, and empathizing with them isn't much easier - but it's so important to remember that listening is not agreeing.