Quotes About Listening

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Think of Hridaynath Mangeshkar's 'Mira bhajans.' I have bought these records three to four times, as I listen to them so often.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.

I love it when coaches don't talk about which position they see me at. When they just refer to me as a basketball player and talk about all of the different positions they can see me playing in, I definitely listen more.

Collaborating with someone on music is the same way you'd go about hanging out. You have to listen more than you talk.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.

When you're on campus, you go through a lot of hard times and you need someone to talk to.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with.

I was one of those young cats and knuckleheads that was hard headed, that didn't listen.

I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50.

I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite... bonding with him, in a weird way.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

There are just huge benefits to come from designing for the ears in our health care.

I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster.

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?

Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.