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Quotes About Listening

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.
~ Nelsan Ellis
When I was writing 'Bad Behavior,' I was very, very quiet. I would just sit there and listen to people. And if I was out in public, I was usually quiet, and people tended to assume I was stupid because I was a young, pretty girl who's quiet.
~ Mary Gaitskill
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
~ George A. Smith
If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there's no spikes - everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It's actually damaging because it's like listening to a drill.
~ Stephen Morris
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
~ Dan Hicks
Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting.
~ Robin Marantz Henig
My wife and kids like the quiet and the countryside - I still find that kind of quiet hard to listen to.
~ James McBride
God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.
~ Mother Angelica
Just taking any kind of information you can gather, listening to the differences, the way they have gone about racing over the years, whatever they are willing to share with you it's important to hear those differing opinions and try to balance them out.
~ Chase Elliott
I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.
~ David Byrne
I'm not a big radio listener.
~ Finn Wolfhard
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
I almost never listen to the radio.
~ Bjarke Ingels
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
~ Alistair Cooke
Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.
~ Tom Araya
I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.
~ Timothy B. Schmit
The new national campfire - radio.
~ Linda Ellerbee
File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.
~ Guy Picciotto
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
~ Jeff Tweedy
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
~ Bernie Worrell
But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.
~ Sam Donaldson
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
~ Jason Schwartzman
There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.
~ Boz Scaggs