Quotes About Listening

Doing a TV show where it's a very relentless schedule, it does democratise you in a brilliant way. It does chip away at the old ego and you do realise that you're only really ever as good as the words that you're saying, the people you're talking to, or more importantly, listening to.

I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to hear it. You sit in the studio all this time and make the music, tweak it, try to get it perfect. They should be able to hear it that way.

When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.

Tweeting - let's be honest: it's like I'm the center of the universe; it's all about me. Everybody is listening to my every thought, and my current thought at this very moment is... it's ridiculous.

The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

I always loved music and would listen to the radio and watch out for new stuff. When I was about nine or ten, I would go around to me friend's house on a Sunday when the top twenty was broadcast on the radio at 6 P.M., and we would tape it on a cassette, and then we would take turns in sharing it over the next week.

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall that listening is much more invigorating than giving voice to all the thoughts and prejudices that anyway keep me company twenty-four hours a day.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

I think that the larger and more complex the business gets, I have to listen twice as much as I speak.

I really like listening to books. I listen to them at twice the speed so I can listen to more books.

When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.

People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through different phases - sometimes I want to listen to music that's just pummeling.

That's why I don't listen to other people on the radio, never have, 'cause I don't want to inadvertently, even unaware, end up repeating something somebody else has already said.

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.